Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

George Goethals

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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.

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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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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

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Batten, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Ovid

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Marx, Groucho

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

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

Ervin, Sam

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Lukas, Wayne