Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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 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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Half, Robert

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Batten, Joe

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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.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius