Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Wanamaker, John

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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!

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Townsend, Robert

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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