Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Schorr, James

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Miller, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb

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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

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

Depree, Max

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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 was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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.