Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Motto

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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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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

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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.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

Ovid

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

Packard, Vance

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Ford, Henry

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Parker, Dorothy

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.