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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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

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Diderot, Denis

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Patton, George S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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 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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Diogenes of Sinope