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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, French

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Perot, H. Ross

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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 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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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

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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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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Motto

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Half, Robert

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Schorr, James

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim