Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Saying, Zen

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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 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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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 art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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