Motivational Quotes

Leadership

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

- Evans, Bergen

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Miller, Henry

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

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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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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.