Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Schorr, James

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

Motto

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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Confucius

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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