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

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bennis, Warren

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Goethals

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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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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schorr, James

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

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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 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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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 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.

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre