Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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.

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

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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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.

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Ovid

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

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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.