Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Walters, J. Donald

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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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 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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Ovid

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb