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A collection of quotations on Leadership, alphabetical by source, N thru Z.
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
-- Jim Rohn
"The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they not trust you and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart."
-- Robin S. Sharma, Thoughts from Great Minds
"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating.This is intelligent non-aggressiveness. This is called mastery."
-- Lao-Tse
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
-- Ralph Lauren
"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.
"Just being available and attentive is a great way to use listening as a management tool. Some employees will come in, talk for twenty minutes, and leave having solved their problems entirely by themselves."
-- Nicholas V. Luppa
“You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go.”
-- Lachlan McLean
"The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside."
-- Parker Palmer
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."
-- Dolly Parton
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they'll surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George S. Patton
"In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles."
-- Bill Parcells
"Never criticize until the person is convinced of your unconditional confidence in their abilities. "
-- John Robinson
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
-- Jim Rohn
"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."
-- Harriet Rubin
"Management will recognize the need for education and retraining when they realize that people are an asset and not an expense."
-- William Scherkenbach
“No one is as good as they know how to be.”
-- Bob Schultz
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."
-- Casey Stengal
"Words like promises, deceit, honor, courage, sacrifice, and forgiveness are words that speak to higher human values. We hear and process these words in a profoundly different way than we do common commercial language. Say these words out loud right now. Process their potency for yourself. They are the words of the leader. Make them your words."
-- Gregg Thompson (President of Bluepoint Leadership Development)
"Any evidence that you're putting your personal gain ahead of your organization's welfare is one of the most discrediting things you can do in leadership, It becomes a litmus test for any followers, about whether they want to go with the man or woman at the top."
-- Michael Useem, Wharton School of Business, quoted in the NY Times, 7 April 2002
"If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated."
-- Frank F. Warren
"There is always room at the top."
-- Daniel Webster
"You are responsible for the world that you live in."
-- August Wilson
"You don't motivate people. You influence what they're motivated to do."
-- John Woods
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