Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Half, Robert

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Those who can command themselves command others.