Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Ovid

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

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Parker, Dorothy

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Ford, Henry

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Churchill, Winston

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Confucius

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.