Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brecht, Bertolt

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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

Motto

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, 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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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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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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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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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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 challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Saying, Zen

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Walters, J. Donald

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Those who can command themselves command others.