Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Oech, Roger Von

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Batten, Joe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Half, Robert

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lindner, Robert

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.