Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Proverb, German

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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.

11.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Saying, Zen

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

Schorr, James

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

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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.

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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

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

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

Miller, Henry