Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

Allen, Norman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Motto

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Who has not served cannot command.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.