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

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, French

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.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Half, Robert

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

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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Bird, Larry

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Naisbitt, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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 challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ovid

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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