Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb, German

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

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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.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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 I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.