Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Daniel Akst

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Motto

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

Motto

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Milton, John

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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 a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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 one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Batten, Joe

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard