Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

Milton, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Confucius

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Churchill, Winston

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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