Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Patton, George S.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Half, Robert

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

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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

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

Schorr, James

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

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