Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

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

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.