Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Townsend, Robert

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

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

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

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Batten, Joe

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Ovid

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

Ward, Ted

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

Schorr, James

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

Proverb, French

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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