Thursday, July 25, 2013
THE BEST LEADERSHIP QUOTES
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. —Thomas Jefferson
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. —Latin Proverb
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. —Nelson Mandela
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. —Vince Lombardi
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
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. —Colin Powell
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. —Tom Peters
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. —Stephen Covey
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. —General Douglas MacArthur
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. —Abraham Lincoln
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. —Stephen Covey
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. —Chinese Proverb
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. —Arnold Glasow
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. —Walter Lippman
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. —Ken Blanchard
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. —Harvey Firestone
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. —Friedrich Nietzsche
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. —Bill Owens
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. —Marco Rubio
Whatever you are, be a good one. —Abraham Lincoln
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. —John J Pershing
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. —John Maxwell
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. —Fuchan Yuan
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. —Dee Dee Myers
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. —Stephen King
My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back. –Unknown
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George Patton
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. –Dwight Eisenhower
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. –Dwight Eisenhower
Earn your leadership every day. –Michael Jordan
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