Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

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.

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

Peter Drucker

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Confucius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George