Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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!

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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 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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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 duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schorr, James

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Half, Robert

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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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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

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Motto

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy