Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

- Robinson, H. Wheeler

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ovid

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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.

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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.

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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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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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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Proverb, German

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth