Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is action, not position.

- Mcgannon, Donald H.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

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

Townsend, Robert

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bennis, Warren

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Patton, George S.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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