Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Laura Preble

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

Proverb, German

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

Half, Robert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Depree, Max

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Naisbitt, John

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Milton, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George