Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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

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

Motto

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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