Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Melbourne, Lord

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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 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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Ovid

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

Depree, Max

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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