Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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!

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Half, Robert

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laura Preble

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Milton, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, French

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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