Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schorr, James

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Batten, Joe

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

Proverb, German

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Proverb, French

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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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Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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 am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Ford, Henry

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.