Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Half, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Proverb, French

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, German

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

Batten, Joe

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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Schorr, James

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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