Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

- Willkie, Wendell L.

Best Quotes about Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Ervin, Sam

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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