Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Maxwell, John C.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bennis, Warren

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

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, 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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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 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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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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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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