Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

- Selfridge, H. Gordon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Milton, John

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Caine, Mark

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.