Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

- Lukas, Wayne

Best Quotes about Leadership

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Townsend, Robert

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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 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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

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