Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Parker, Dorothy

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Townsend, Robert

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ward, Ted

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope