Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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.

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Ward, Ted

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

Milton, John

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

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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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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Confucius

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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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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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, German

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

Bennis, Warren

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin