Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Adelman, Ken

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Maurois, Andre

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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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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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!

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

Motto

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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