Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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.

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.

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.

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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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Maxwell, John C.

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Depree, Max

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu