Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Diderot, Denis

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

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

Schorr, James

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lindner, Robert

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, German