Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Confucius

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Motto

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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry