Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ford, Henry

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Perot, H. Ross

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.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, German

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

Miller, Henry

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Confucius

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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