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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ward, Ted

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Batten, Joe

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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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 is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Schorr, James

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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

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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