Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Batten, Joe

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Proverb, German

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

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, French

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Confucius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lindner, Robert

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

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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