Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Leadership

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

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

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Melbourne, Lord

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Milton, John

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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.

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

Wanamaker, John