Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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.

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Proverb

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth