Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Packard, Vance

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

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

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.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Perot, H. Ross

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Motto

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Schorr, James

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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To lead people walk behind them.