Leadership Quotes

Leadership Quotes


If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
Ken Adelman
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You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.
Grace Hopper
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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.
Unknown
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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey
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A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David R. Gergen
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John Maxwell
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter
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People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
John Porter
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan
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When placed in command - take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
Abraham Lincoln
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
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Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides - what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence).
Stephen Covey
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Where there is no leadership the people fall, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Some men see the world as it is and ask why; others see the world as it might be and ask why not.
Bernard Shaw
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
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Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
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Leadership is not something that you learn once and for all. It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that grow and change as you do.
Sheila Murray Bethel
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From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.
President George Bush
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Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.
Mary Cunningham Agee
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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
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If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
Bill Pollard
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A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
H.S.M. Burns
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John Maxwell
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Leaders are those who know what to do next, know why that is important, and know what appropriate resources to bring to bear on the problem at hand. Then, through effective communication they influence others to follow.
Barry Bowater
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If you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow.
Howard Hendricks
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It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for his world.
Calvin Miller
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Good leadership is motivating and mobilizing others to accomplish a task or to think in ways that are for the benefit of all oncerned.
Don Page
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Leadership has less to do with position than it has with disposition.
John C. Maxwell
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Commitment is the face of challenge produces character.
John C. Maxwell
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Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Unknown
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Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Karl G. Maeser
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Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
Unknown
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
David O. McKay
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leaders premier trait.
Tom Peters
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A leader lives with people to know their problems. A leader lives with God in order to solve them.
John Maxwell
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The first step to leadership is servanthood.
John Maxwell
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
Stephen Covey
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
John Maxwell
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Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.
Warren Bennis
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Servant leadership propels organizational success.
Ken Blanchard
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Whattleton
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Eventually relationships determine the size and the length of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
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It is always easy to do right when you know ahead of time what you stand for.
Don Meyer
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Leadership is influence.
John C. Maxwell
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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Bill Bradley (US Senator)
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The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders—people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.
Jack Welch

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Joe Batten
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Unknown
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
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The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
J. Richard Clarke
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Unknown
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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:15
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Warren Bennis
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Crook
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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…
Bergen Evans
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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.
Russell H. Ewing
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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.
Edward Hennessy
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Morale is faith in the man (leader) at the top.
Albert S. Johnstone
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Pay heed to nourishing the troops; do not unnecessarily fatigue them. Unite them in spirit; conserve their strength.
Sun Tzu
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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Les Brown
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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
Paul J. Meyer
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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
A. Godin
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley