Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, French

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Depree, Max

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

Confucius

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Oech, Roger Von

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Motto

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Batten, Joe

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis