Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Laura Preble

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

Half, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Naisbitt, John

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ovid

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Lindner, Robert

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord