Leadership Quotes
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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. (Quote by - Robert Lindner)
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. (Quote by - Robert L. Payton)
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. (Quote by - Marian Anderson)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. (Quote by - Christina Baldwin)
Leadership is influence. (Quote by - John C. Maxwell)
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour. (Quote by - Harold J. Seymour)
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. (Quote by - Karl Raimund Popper)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The first step to leadership is servanthood. (Quote by - John Maxwell)
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Quote by - Stendhal)
it is much safer to obey than to rule. (Quote by - Thomas à Kempis)
To lead the people, walk behind them. (Quote by - Lao-tzu)
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. (Quote by - Publius Syrus)
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. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. (Quote by - Robert K. Greenleaf)
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. (Quote by - Jan Masaryk)
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. (Quote by - James L. Fisher)
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs. (Quote by - Charles Yost)
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. (Quote by - James L. Fisher)
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. (Quote by - Blaine Lee)
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Quote by - General Dwight David Eisenhower)
Great necessities call forth great leaders. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. (Quote by - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)
Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer. (Quote by - Charles S. Lauer)
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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. (Quote by - Sam Rayburn)
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. (Quote by - Lister Sinclair)
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
And when we think we lead, we are most led. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Quote by - Max De Pree)
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour. (Quote by - Harold J. Seymour)
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. (Quote by - Blaine Lee)
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. (Quote by - Mary D. Poole)
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. (Quote by - E. M. Kelly)
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)
Leadership is action, not position. (Quote by - Donald H. Mcgannon)
There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)
A leader is a dealer in hope. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. (Quote by - Theodore Hesburgh)
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. (Quote by - F. G. Buck Rodgers)
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (Quote by - Matthew)
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve. (Quote by - Tom Landry)
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)
If you shoot at a king you must kill him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'. (Quote by - Antoine De Saint-exupery)
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. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
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. (Quote by - Ferdinand Edralin Marcos)
