Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

- Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

George Goethals

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Ovid

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

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.

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

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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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.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Motto

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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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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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.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Ervin, Sam

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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 the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

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 are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 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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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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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 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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin