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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Maurois, Andre

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Schorr, James

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

Motto

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

Half, Robert

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

Saying, Zen

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ward, Ted

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.