Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, French

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Ovid

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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 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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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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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Batten, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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