Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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!

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Miller, Henry

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, 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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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

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schorr, James

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Naisbitt, John

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Bird, Larry

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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