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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Motto

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Maurois, Andre

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Depree, Max

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Townsend, Robert

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