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 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

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Oech, Roger Von

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.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Miller, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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

Ovid

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John