Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Depree, Max

4.

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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

6.

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

7.

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

Oech, Roger Von

8.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

9.

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

10.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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.

12.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

16.

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

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

Townsend, Robert

18.

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

19.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

20.

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

21.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

22.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

23.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Naisbitt, John

25.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

29.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

31.

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

Laura Preble

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Diogenes of Sinope

37.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

39.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

40.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

41.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

42.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

43.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

44.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

45.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Iacocca, Lee

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