Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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

Patton, George S.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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

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

Schorr, James

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Thatcher, Margaret

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

Confucius

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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