Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ovid

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.

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

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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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 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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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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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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Lincoln, Abraham