Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Leadership

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Peter Drucker

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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 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

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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 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 am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. 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