Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

- Knox, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Schorr, James

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Townsend, Robert

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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 lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wanamaker, John