Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Proverb

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.