Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

- Willkie, Wendell L.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Confucius

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Depree, Max

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy