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

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

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, 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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark