Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Lindner, Robert

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Walters, J. Donald

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

George Goethals

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

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

Packard, Vance

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lukas, Wayne

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Motto

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

Batten, Joe

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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 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

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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