Leadership Quotes - Page 6

• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Basketball, Successful

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• Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspirational, Attitude, Heart

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• Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

  Anne Sweeney

  People, Giving, Expectations

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• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  Harold Geneen

  Taught, Born Leaders, Great Leader

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Essence

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• You're only as good as the people you hire.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, People, Business Success

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

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• Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Want, Young

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• To add value to others, one must first value others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Good Life, Add

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

  John C. Maxwell

  Promise, Credibility, Credible

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

  Robert Townsend

  Running, Jobs, People

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
  to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

  John McCain

  Honesty, Integrity, Humility

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, False Hope, Swept Away

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To govern was to serve, not to rule.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Caring

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Educational, Learning

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Average

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

  Joe Namath

  Nfl, People, Inspire

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Peace

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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