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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Milton, John

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Townsend, Robert

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Perot, H. Ross

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Schorr, James

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

Patton, George S.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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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.

28.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Naisbitt, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Lao-Tzu