Leadership Quotes - Page 14

• 

  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Basketball, Life And Love

  272 Copy quote

• Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Honesty, Motivation

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.324

  37 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

  Johnny Hunt

  Christian, Thinking, Church

  15 Copy quote

• Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Running, Optimistic, Boss

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  18 Copy quote

• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  147 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Business, Want, Great Leader

  142 Copy quote

• 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, Basketball, People

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

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Unique, Focus, Action

  11 Copy quote

• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  William Arthur Ward

  Basketball, Motivation, Disappointment

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Coaching, Vision, Language

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

  John P. Kotter

  Motivation, Powerful, Self Esteem

  John P. Kotter (1999). “John P. Kotter on what Leaders Really Do”, p.60, Harvard Business Press

  131 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  769 Copy quote

  Show source

• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  258 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Believe, Moving

  30 Copy quote
• 

  Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

  Maria Montessori

  Moving, Watches, Want

  1402 Copy quote

• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Pain, Growth, Criticism

  319 Copy quote

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

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Congratulations

  20 Copy quote

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

  Groucho Marx

  Motivational, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  49 Copy quote

• Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

  Susan Jeffers

  Differences, Knowing, Making A Difference

  10 Copy quote

• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Risk, Patriotism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  66 Copy quote
• 

  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Witty, Men, Rights In America

  85 Copy quote

• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Education, Business, Honesty

  83 Copy quote