Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Depree, Max

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

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.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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

Naisbitt, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Batten, Joe

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

Schorr, James

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.