Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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