Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Milton, John

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Confucius

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ford, Henry

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Naisbitt, John

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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