Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

- Adelman, Ken

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Ward, Ted

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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Half, Robert

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Confucius

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo