Motivational Quotes

Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Leadership

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Milton, John

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

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

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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