Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

- Maxwell, John C.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lukas, Wayne

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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.

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peter Drucker

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Milton, 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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Daniel Akst

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Depree, Max

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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