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

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

Packard, Vance

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Motto

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

11.

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

Motto

12.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

16.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

17.

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

Walters, J. Donald

18.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

19.

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

20.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

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

Parker, Dorothy

22.

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

23.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

24.

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

Laura Preble

25.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

26.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

28.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

30.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

31.

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

32.

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

Townsend, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Hennessy, Edward

35.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

36.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

41.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

42.

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!

43.

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

44.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

48.

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

49.

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.