Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Saying, Zen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Bennis, Warren

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Diderot, Denis

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Half, Robert

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Depree, Max

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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