Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Daniel Akst

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Depree, Max

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Motto

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Diderot, Denis

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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.