Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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 not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Depree, Max

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.