Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Perot, H. Ross

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Half, Robert

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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.