Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

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!

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

Lukas, Wayne

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Half, Robert

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Lao-Tzu