Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Leadership

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

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

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Batten, Joe

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ward, Ted

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Peter Drucker

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Townsend, Robert

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Depree, Max