Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Leadership

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

2.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Miller, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

18.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

21.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 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 is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

36.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Half, Robert

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ward, Ted

40.

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

Ovid

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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

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

Maxwell, John C.

43.

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

Peter Drucker

44.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

45.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord