Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

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

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Miller, Henry

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Motto

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Proverb, French

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Ward, Ted

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''