Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Motto

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Depree, Max

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Laura Preble

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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