Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bennis, Warren

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Ward, Ted

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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 am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, 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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Men are lead by trifles.

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.