Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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.

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter Drucker

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord