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 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

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.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

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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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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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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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 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.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Schorr, James

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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.