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

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Half, Robert

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Motto

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

Batten, Joe

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Those who can command themselves command others.