Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is action, not position.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Motto

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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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 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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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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.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Ward, Ted

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Laura Preble