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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

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

Motto

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Laura Preble

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Townsend, Robert

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Lukas, Wayne

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.