Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wanamaker, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Batten, Joe

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ward, Ted

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.