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

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Batten, Joe

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Daniel Akst

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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 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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.