Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Schorr, James

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Oech, Roger Von

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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