Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Milton, John

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Maurois, Andre

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert