Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ervin, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Patton, George S.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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!

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Perot, H. Ross

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, German

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Ovid

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

Ward, Ted

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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When placed in command -- take charge.