Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

- Lukas, Wayne

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Bennis, Warren

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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ward, Ted

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

Churchill, Winston

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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 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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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Proverb, French

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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