Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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

Maxwell, John C.

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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