Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Depree, Max

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Half, Robert

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Laura Preble

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Proverb, French

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

Brecht, Bertolt

48.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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