Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Motto

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Depree, Max

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Schorr, James

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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

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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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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

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

Churchill, Winston

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu