Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Walters, J. Donald

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Proverb, French

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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.