Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Confucius

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Proverb, French

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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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 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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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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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Depree, Max

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Motto

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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!