Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Half, Robert

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Naisbitt, John

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Depree, Max

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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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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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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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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 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 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 the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, German

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

Lao-Tzu

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.