Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Patton, George S.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

10.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Confucius

12.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 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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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

22.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

25.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

28.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

35.

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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry