Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Motto

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Walters, J. Donald

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Milton, John

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Batten, Joe

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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt