Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Parker, Dorothy

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, French

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Confucius

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

Daniel Akst

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bennis, Warren

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Naisbitt, John

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Depree, Max

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Motto

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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