Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian