Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Maurois, Andre

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Adelman, Ken

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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 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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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.