Monday, April 6, 2009

Great Quotes on Leadership to Inspire your Life

By Manish Kapoor

Good Leadership skills are essential if you want to get success in personal as well as professional life and what could be best way then Leadership Quotes to learn about leadership skills. There are several famous leadership quotes that instigate and motivate you to achieve your goals. Here are some of the best quotes about leadership by famous Authors to help you become a successful 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. When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. ---- Abraham Lincoln

3. 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 higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ----Peter F. Drucker

4. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.----- ohn Kenneth Galbraith

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. I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates. ----Knute Rockne - Professional Football Coach

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

9. Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. ----RACHEL MADDOW

10. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -----Lewis H. Lapham

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. Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving. -----Jesse Jackson

14. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. -----Dwight D. Eisenhower

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