Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ervin, Sam

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Perot, H. Ross

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Daniel Akst

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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 ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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