Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Wanamaker, John

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ford, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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.

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

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

11.

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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Marx, Groucho

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

31.

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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Half, Robert

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

43.

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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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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