Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Depree, Max

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Milton, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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 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.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee