Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are readers.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about 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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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 best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Depree, Max

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Confucius

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

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Half, Robert

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince