Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Laura Preble

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

Proverb, German

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Depree, Max

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ovid

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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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Taylor, Claude

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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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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster