Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

- Florio, John

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.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Churchill, Winston

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Laura Preble

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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.

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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 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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Depree, Max

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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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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

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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