Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

  Jack Weatherford

  Pride, Animal, Mountain

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Greatness

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• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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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, Appreciation, Nice

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

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Peace

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

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Basketball, Business

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Trust, Teamwork, Jobs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Discipline, Self Motivation

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 27, 2016

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Pain, Growth, Criticism

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• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, People, Political

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Insperational, Words Of Wisdom

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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• People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Attitude

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 22, 2017

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• The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Organization, Impact, People

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Basketball, Life And Love

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Ranking, Privilege

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Optimistic

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• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Business, Failure, Organization

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

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• It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self Esteem, Differences, Add

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• The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Positivity, People, Getting Older

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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Football

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