Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

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

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Miller, Henry

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ovid

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Townsend, Robert

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

29.

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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Caine, Mark