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

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Saying, Zen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Half, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Oech, Roger Von