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

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

Proverb, German

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Batten, Joe

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Schorr, James

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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