Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Ovid

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Motto

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Lindner, Robert

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, French

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

Milton, John

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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