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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

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

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

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

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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Depree, Max

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Milton, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.