Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ovid

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

34.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Batten, Joe

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

Confucius

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don