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

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

Batten, Joe

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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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!

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

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.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Motto

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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

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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