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

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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.

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

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Ovid

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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 art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Milton, John

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Wanamaker, John

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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