Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

- The EMS Manager Newsletter

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Schorr, James

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Daniel Akst

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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.

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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