Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Ovid

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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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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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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Confucius

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.