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

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

Bennis, Warren

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

George Goethals

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Motto

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam