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

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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.

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

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Motto

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

Barker, Joel A.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter Drucker

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Schorr, James

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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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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Townsend, Robert