Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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.

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

Caine, Mark

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Meir, Golda

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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.

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Half, Robert

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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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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kissinger, Henry

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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