Motivational Quotes

Leadership

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

- Liu Shao-Ch'I

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Adelman, Ken

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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.

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Motto

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Packard, Vance

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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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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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John