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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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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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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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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.

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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 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

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

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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

Batten, Joe

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