Leader Quotes - Page 4

• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

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• You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, Military, Bad Ass

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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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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• He who has great power should use it lightly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Philosophical, Vision

  "Troades". Line 336, 1st century.

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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 genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leadership, Business, Common Sense

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• Leadership is influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Influence

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “How to Influence People Lunch & Learn”, BookBaby

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• No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

  Philip Danforth Armour

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fighting

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• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself". Book by Steve Chandler, 2004.

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• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

  Edmund Spenser

  Leadership, Motivation, Great Leader

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Mean, Order

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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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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Leadership, Thinking, Empowering Others

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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Power, Past

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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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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Vision, Looks

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Leadership, Persistence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• A bold onset is half the battle.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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