Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- George Goethals

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Adelman, Ken

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Peter Drucker

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

Schorr, James

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

Maxwell, John C.

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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 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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Packard, Vance

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry