Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Diogenes of Sinope

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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

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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ovid

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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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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Marx, Groucho

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Proverb, German

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Batten, Joe

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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 the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.