Being A Leader Quotes - Page 5

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

  Andre Malraux

  Leadership, Military, Vision

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• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

  Polybius

  Leadership, Creative, Victory

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• Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

  Tom Landry

  Leadership, Business, Want

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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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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• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Organization, Future Leaders

  "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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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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• The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

  Publilius Syrus

  Leadership, Men, Virtue

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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

  John Peter Zenger

  Leadership, Vision, Weakness

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

  Toni Morrison

  Responsibility, Leader, Taking Responsibility

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.259, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Vision, Management

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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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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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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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• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Leadership, Running, Optimistic

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  Arleigh Burke

  Inspiring, Leadership, Determination

  "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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• When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

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• The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sadness

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