Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Milton, John

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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 best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, French

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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Maxwell, John C.