Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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 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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Patton, George S.

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Depree, Max

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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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca