- "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."
--John Maxwell - "Leadership is not a right--it is a responsibility."
--John Maxwell - "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
--John Maxwell - "The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does--and what it does is more important than what it is or how it works."
-- Colonel Dandridge M. Malone - "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."
--Fred A. Manske, Jr. - "The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. "
-- Andre Maurois - "The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way."
-- Henry Miller - "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
-- Ralph Nader - "It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."
--Bill Pollard - "Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow."
--Chinese proverb - "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-- Proverbs 29:18 - "People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential."
--John Porter - "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George Patton - "A women's organization was the catalyst to trigger a flip-flop in my mind that I wasn't a follower, I was a leader. And in spite of my first reaction, that of fear, and a feeling I couldn't' do it, I took the risk. Don't listen to other people's negativity: they filter through their own experiences. Learn to trust your own feelings."
--Ginger Purdy - "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
--Theodore Roosevelt - "The leader must know, most know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows."
--Clarence B. Randall - "The person who know "how" will always have job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss."
--Diane Ravitch - "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt - "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Muriel Strode - "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
--Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf - "A true leader is hated by most, and respected by all. A follower is liked by all, and respected by none."
--Scott Smigler - "Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. "
-- Adlai Stevenson - "Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them. Therefore it is the king of hundred streams."
-- tao te ching - "Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."
--Brian Tracey - "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."
--Lao-Tzu - "When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure."
--Robert Townsend - "You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it."
--Harry S. Truman - "Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others."
--Unknown - "Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. "
-- John G. Vance - "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
--Thomas J. Watson - "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 - "All serious daring starts from within."
-- Eudora Welty - "In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. "
-- Margaret Wheatly
Motivational - Leadership
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