Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Bennis, Warren

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.

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.

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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 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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Half, Robert

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Peter Drucker

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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.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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