Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

- Hennessy, Edward

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Miller, Henry

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.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Ford, Henry

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

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John