Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Patton, George S.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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.

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bennis, Warren

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Ward, Ted

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

Ovid

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Milton, John

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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