Outstanding Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• Earn your leadership every day.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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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, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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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 think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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• The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

  Albert Einstein

  Leadership, Born Leaders, Able

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

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

  Erin McCarthy

  Success, Leadership, Sunset

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

  Beth Revis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.250, Penguin

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• Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Leadership, Determination, Moving

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Leadership, Jobs

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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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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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

  George Washington

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.269

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• Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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