Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb, German

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ward, Ted

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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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 was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laura Preble

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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

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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Motto

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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