Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

- Tead, Orway

Best Quotes about Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Townsend, Robert

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Schorr, James

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

Maurois, Andre

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Ovid

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Motto

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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.