Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Naisbitt, John

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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

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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.

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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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 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

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.