Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Lao-Tzu

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Depree, Max

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

Half, Robert

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler