Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Barker, Joel A.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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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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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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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Bennis, Warren

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Confucius

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ervin, Sam

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Miller, Henry

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.