Outstanding Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

  Erin McCarthy

  Success, Leadership, Sunset

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• The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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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 best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

  Albert Einstein

  Leadership, Born Leaders, Able

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

  Beth Revis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.250, Penguin

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• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Vision, Labels

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• Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Leadership, Determination, Moving

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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