Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Ovid

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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.