Leadership Quotes - Page 6

• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Lying, Responsibility

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Christian, Long, Listening

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

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• The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

  Alexis Hunter

  Positive Attitude, Open Minded, Calm

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

  George S. Patton

  Military, Bad Ass, Sheep

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

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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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 objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

  Jim Rohn

  Insperational, Helping Others, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 23, 2015

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• A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Business, Political

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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

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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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• 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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• You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Twitter post from

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

  Susan Collins

  Generations, Next, Responsible

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Being A Leader, Managers, Asks

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational Sports, Average, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2016

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Women, Power

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Education, Mother

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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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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• 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, Determination, Jobs

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

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