Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bennis, Warren

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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 golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ovid

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus