Thursday, July 16, 2009

Motivation Quote "Leaders"

Leaders for Tomorrow..


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


Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf


A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter


I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh


The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair


The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan


If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
Miyamoto Mursashi


Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon


To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman


The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonapart


A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell


The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee


A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
Lao Tzu


We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandhi


If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Morita Akio


Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself – your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.
Dee Hock


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


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


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