Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

- Taylor, Claude

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Allen, Norman

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

Bennis, Warren

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proverb, German

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu