Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Leadership

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Confucius

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Patton, George S.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Oech, Roger Von

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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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 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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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!