Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Batten, Joe

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Proverb, German

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Half, Robert

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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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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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

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.