Great Leader Quotes - Page 3

• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Taught, Born Leaders

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• 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.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Heart, Organization

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

  Tom Landry

  Leadership, Business, Want

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sadness

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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 is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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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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• 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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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

  Publilius Syrus

  Leadership, Men, Virtue

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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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• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

  David Gergen

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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• When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

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• 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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