Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Milton, John

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.

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

Half, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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