Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Batten, Joe

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Proverb

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Maurois, Andre

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Schorr, James

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

43.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.