Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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 nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Batten, Joe

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ward, Ted

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, German

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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

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

Bennis, Warren

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.