Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Laura Preble

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, Robert

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Motto

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius