Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

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

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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laura Preble

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

George Goethals

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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 a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Confucius

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon