Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Caine, Mark

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Perot, H. Ross

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe