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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Adelman, Ken

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Depree, Max

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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!

22.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

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

Schorr, James

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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 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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Patton, George S.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Motto

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert