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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Saying, Zen

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

Milton, John

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord