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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bennis, Warren

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

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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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

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ward, Ted

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George