Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Bennis, Warren

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

12.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Naisbitt, John

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Marx, Groucho

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Motto

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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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 aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler