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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Laura Preble

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

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

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

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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 the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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 are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Miller, Henry

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.