Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Leadership

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Confucius

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

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

Half, Robert

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

Depree, Max

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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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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

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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 final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diderot, Denis

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George