Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Milton, John

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, Robert

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Batten, Joe

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

Depree, Max

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.