Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Meir, Golda

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Depree, Max

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Miller, Henry

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Half, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Proverb, French

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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.