Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Leadership

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Schorr, James

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Motto

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

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Half, Robert

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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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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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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Depree, Max

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy