Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Half, Robert

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.

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

Patton, George S.

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.

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

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Schorr, James

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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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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

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim