Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Perot, H. Ross

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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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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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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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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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.

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Proverb, French

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

Schorr, James

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Ward, Ted

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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 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.