Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Half, Robert

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schorr, James

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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 crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

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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 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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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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 is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.