Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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

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

Allen, Norman

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Walters, J. Donald

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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 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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schorr, James

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Naisbitt, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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