Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Schorr, James

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Marx, Groucho

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Milton, John