Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

- Florio, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bennis, Warren

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Depree, Max

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, French