Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ervin, Sam

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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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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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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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Marx, Groucho

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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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Batten, Joe

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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