Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Depree, Max

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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!

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

10.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Milton, John

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Hennessy, Edward

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Motto

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Miller, Henry

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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