Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

Ervin, Sam

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Milton, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.