Motivational Quotes

Leadership

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

- Humes, James

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Milton, John

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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.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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 is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon