Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Walters, J. Donald

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Lukas, Wayne

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

Schorr, James

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Proverb, French

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin