Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Lindner, Robert

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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 getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Milton, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Maurois, Andre

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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 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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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth