Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Depree, Max

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.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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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 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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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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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Confucius

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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.

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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