Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

- 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.

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

Patton, George S.

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.

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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 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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ford, Henry

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid