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

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Motto

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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.