Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ovid

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, 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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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

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Milton, John

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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 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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peter Drucker

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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