Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

1.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

2.

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

3.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

4.

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

5.

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

Ervin, Sam

6.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

7.

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

8.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

9.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

12.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

13.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

15.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

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

Batten, Joe

19.

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

Bennis, Warren

20.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

21.

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

22.

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

Barker, Joel A.

23.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

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

Walters, J. Donald

27.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

30.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

31.

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.

32.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

33.

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

34.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

35.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

36.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

37.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

38.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

39.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

40.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Proverb

42.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

43.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

44.

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.

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

47.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don