Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lukas, Wayne

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Carlyle, Thomas

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

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

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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