Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ward, Ted

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Batten, Joe

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

Parker, Dorothy

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Half, Robert

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Depree, Max

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

Ford, Henry

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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