Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lukas, Wayne

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Ovid

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De