Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

- Knox, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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.

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

Laura Preble

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 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

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Half, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ovid

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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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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Adelman, Ken

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne