Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ervin, Sam

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Barker, Joel A.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

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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

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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 minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Marx, Groucho

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Motto

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Packard, Vance

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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.

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ovid

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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