Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Marx, Groucho

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, German

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

Wanamaker, John

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.