Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Leadership

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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

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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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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.

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

Proverb, German

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lao-Tzu

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert