Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Walters, J. Donald

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Motto

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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 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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Confucius

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

Ovid

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

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Half, Robert

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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 good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord