Quotes about leadership

"The highest of distinctions is service to others."

King George VI on leadership
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"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time."

Knox, John on leadership
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"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on leadership
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"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."

Landry, Tom on leadership
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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 on leadership
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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership   

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"To lead people walk behind them."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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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 on leadership
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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 on 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. on leadership   

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."

Lauren, Ralph on leadership   

"I'm their leader, I've got to follow them."

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre on leadership   

"Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed."

Lincoln, Abraham on leadership   

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

Lindner, Robert on leadership   

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

Lippmann, Walter on leadership   

"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 on leadership   

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

Lombardi, Vince on leadership   

"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 on leadership   

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."

Lombardi, Vince on leadership   

"Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on leadership   

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

Lukas, Wayne on leadership   

"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 on leadership   

"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on leadership
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"Popularity is not leadership."

Marcinko, Richard on leadership
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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. on leadership   

"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 on leadership   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on leadership
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"That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown."

Marlowe, Christopher on leadership   

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

Marx, Groucho on leadership
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"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such."

Maurois, Andre on leadership   

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way."

Maxwell, John C. on leadership   

"Leadership is action, not position."

Mcgannon, Donald H. on leadership
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"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."

Meir, Golda on leadership   

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

Melbourne, Lord on leadership   

"When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"

Melville, Herman on leadership   

"The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way."

Miller, Henry on leadership
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