Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Anonymous

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

Aristotle

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently."

Keith Bellow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

Warren G. Bennis

" . . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership."

Warren G. Bennis

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."

Warren G. Bennis

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

Kenneth Blanchard

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."

Andrew Carnegie

"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess - fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others."

Herbert N. Casson

"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage."

Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" -- that is flattery. 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 F. Drucker

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Max DuPree

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

General Dwight David Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head, that's assault, not leadership."

General David Dwight Eisenhower

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better."

John H. Fischer

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

Harold S. Green

"The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive."

Hugh Gilmore

"A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership."

R. H. Grant

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

Richard Harkness

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

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

Eric Hoffer

"Respect a man, he will do the more."

James Howell

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

Jesse Jackson

"The only real training for leadership is leadership."

Anthony Jay

"No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

Dr. Samuel Johnson

"You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside."

Charles Franklin Kettering

"Lift, Lead and Love."

Spencer W. Kimball

"A leader is best

When people barely know he exists.

Not so good

When people obey and acclaim him.

Worse when they despise him.

But of a good leader

Who talks little

When his work is done,

His aim fulfilled, They will say "We did it ourselves."

Lao Tse

"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish, don't overdo it."

Lao Tse

"There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers."

Marshall Loeb

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Max Lucado

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."

Andre Malraux

"Leadership is influence."

John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is an action, not a position."

Donald H. McGannon

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Napolean I

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

Michael O'Brien

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged."

Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."

Dennis A. Peer

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."

William Penn

"The same ambition can destroy or save,

And makes a patriot as it makes a knave."

Alexander Pope

"Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement."

F. G. Buck Rodgers

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence."

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"He who reads is never alone."

Helder Simone

"Learn to obey before you command."

Solon

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand--Perigord

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable."

Claude I. Taylor

"Consensus is the negation of leadership."

Margaret Thatcher

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern."