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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Batten, Joe

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

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lukas, Wayne

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Patton, George S.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo