Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Melbourne, Lord

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.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, German

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Perot, H. Ross

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Ovid

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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

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

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

Batten, Joe