Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

- Nunn, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Townsend, Robert

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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 great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, French

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schorr, James

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Motto

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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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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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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.