Great Leader Quotes - Page 5

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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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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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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• A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

  Howard Schultz

  Commitment, Common Purpose, People

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• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Presidential, Sticks

  Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900

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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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• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  Victor Kiam

  Humorous, Funny Thanksgiving, Men

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• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Motivation, Goal

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

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• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Men, Able

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