Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

The crowd gives the leader new strength

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says ''I''; The leader says ''WE''. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, ''GO''; the leader says lets, ''GO!''

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes -- love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

Your fortune stateth: You will be recognized and honored as a community leader.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.

Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

It's what you ARE that your people learn, not what you do deliberately. What parents do deliberately probably makes almost no difference in whether their children grow up to be happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, good or evil. My guess is that the same dynamic occurs in management, and leadership. That's why the technology of management, like the technology of parenting is such a blind alley, or worse, such a wrong turn, taking us to a place we shouldn't be going.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. Leadership | Tom Hanks

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

LEO (July 23 - Aug 22) You consider yourself a born leader. Others think you are pushy. Most Leo people are bullies. You are vain and dislike honest criticism. Your arrogance is disgusting. Leo people are thieves.

There are no office hours for leaders.

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.