Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

- Taylor, Claude

Best Quotes about 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

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Maurois, Andre

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laura Preble

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

Wanamaker, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, German

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

Schorr, James

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Batten, Joe

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus