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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Milton, John

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, German

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

Ford, Henry

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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 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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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