Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Motto

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Schorr, James

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Marx, Groucho

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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