Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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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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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Depree, Max

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.