Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Half, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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 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

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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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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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Lindner, Robert

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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