Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Diderot, Denis

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Schorr, James

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Naisbitt, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Brecht, Bertolt