Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ward, Ted

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lukas, Wayne

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Laura Preble

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Motto

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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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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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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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

George Goethals

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

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor