Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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 time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, French

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Lindner, Robert

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca