Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lao-Tzu

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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 are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Proverb, German

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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