Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Miller, Henry

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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.

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

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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 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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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