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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Laura Preble

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Oech, Roger Von

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