Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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.

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.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Diderot, Denis

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Ward, Ted

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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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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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

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry