Best Leader Quotes - Page 3

• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Excellence, Vision

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• Leaders are not born, they're made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Discipline, Effort

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

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

  Bill Bradley

  Leadership, People, Vision

  "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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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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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Philosophical, Vision

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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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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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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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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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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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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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

  Groucho Marx

  Motivational, Leadership, Witty

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