True Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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  A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

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

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• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

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

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• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Challenges, Vision

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• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Inspiration, Elements

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• Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

  Simon Sinek

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Numbers

  "Why good leaders make you feel safe". Simon Sinek at TED2014, www.ted.com. May 19, 2014.

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• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

  Polybius

  Leadership, Creative, Victory

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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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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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  Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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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, Leadership, People

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• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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