Being A Leader Quotes - Page 3

• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Managers, Asks

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 20, 2016

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• Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
  of those who would be affected by it

  Marian Anderson

  Leadership, Education, Understanding

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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Motivation, People

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• 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

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Coaching, Vision

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• Leaders are not born, they're made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Discipline, Effort

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Differences, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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