Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Depree, Max

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

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lao-Tzu

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Meir, Golda

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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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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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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