Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Great Leadership Quotes to Keep you Inspired

By Manish Kapoor

Leadership quotes can give your strategy to solve your problems. They can inspire you and motivate you to work hard to achieve your aim. These Leadership Quotes are truly meaningful. Anyone who wants to develop great leadership skills must read and contemplate these Quotes on leadership by famous Authors. Here are few of my favorite quotes about leadership to help you stay focused as a leader.

1. There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant. ----Liu Shao-ch'i

2. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -----Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

3. 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! -----Lao-tsu

4. he final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ----- Walter Lippmann

5. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ----WARREN BENNIS

6. 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! ----Lao-tsu

7. Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. ----Unknown

8. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ----Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. ----William Arthur Ward

10. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ----Arnold Glasgow

11. Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks and accept responsibility for making change happen. -----Charles E. Rice

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

13. I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity. ------Scott Berkun

14. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. -----Colin Powell

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