Motivational Quotes

Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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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 nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Confucius

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Depree, Max

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.