Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Batten, Joe

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

Depree, Max

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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 the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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 needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Allen, Norman

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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