Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

- Nunn, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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 has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Ovid

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston