Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Schorr, James

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Ward, Ted

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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 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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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

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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