Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

- Adair, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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!

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.