Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Depree, Max

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

Parker, Dorothy

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Laura Preble

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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Caine, Mark

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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Motto

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

43.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian