Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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!

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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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.

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Churchill, Winston

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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.

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, French

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Depree, Max

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Adelman, Ken

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

George Goethals