Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Milton, John

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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Half, Robert

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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

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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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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, German

32.

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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon