Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

- Oech, Roger Von

Best Quotes about Leadership

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Caine, Mark

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wanamaker, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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