Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

- Lauren, Ralph

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Perot, H. Ross

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Motto

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ward, Ted

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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 challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Batten, Joe

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Schorr, James

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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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

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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