Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Motto

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Confucius

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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 is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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 the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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

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

Batten, Joe

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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