Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

- Marcos, Ferdinand E.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Bennis, Warren

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Motto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ward, Ted

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

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Miller, Henry

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Confucius

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.