Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Barker, Joel A.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Motto

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

Proverb, French

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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