Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Wanamaker, John

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, Robert

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

Meir, Golda

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Perot, H. Ross

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, French

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

Depree, Max

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb