Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Batten, Joe

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Meir, Golda

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, German

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

Ward, Ted

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''