Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Motto

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Daniel Akst

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

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

Oech, Roger Von

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Half, Robert

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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 boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Peter Drucker

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Laura Preble

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Miller, Henry

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

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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