Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Laura Preble

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Patton, George S.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Batten, Joe

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

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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

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

Ward, Ted

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Half, Robert

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Laura Preble

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell