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

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Ovid

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

Half, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Schorr, James

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Peter Drucker

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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 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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Laura Preble

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Brecht, Bertolt