Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Saying, Zen

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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

14.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Confucius

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

28.

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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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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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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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen