Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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!

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

Daniel Akst

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Schorr, James

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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 wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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