Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Kissinger, Henry

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Maxwell, John C.

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.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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