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

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

Wanamaker, John

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Motto

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, 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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott