Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Proverb, German

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Miller, Henry

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ovid

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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 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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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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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Adelman, Ken

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Batten, Joe