Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Miller, Henry

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

Milton, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Maurois, Andre

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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.

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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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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 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