Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ovid

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Lindner, Robert

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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 knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Townsend, Robert

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Barker, Joel A.

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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