Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

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

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Confucius

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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 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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Men are lead by trifles.