Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, 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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Milton, John

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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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 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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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.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

24.

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.

25.

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Confucius

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Motto

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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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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.