Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bennis, Warren

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ward, Ted

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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 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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Adelman, Ken

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Motto

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius