Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Batten, Joe

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb, German

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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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

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Townsend, Robert

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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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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 seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Ovid

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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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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.