Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

George Goethals

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.

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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Laura Preble

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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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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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

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.