Leadership Quotes - L's and M's

Fabulous selection of leadership quotes from: Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Machiavelli, T.E. Lawrence, Vince Lombardi, Michelangelo, Longfellow, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, John Stuart Mill, Mintzberg, Morita and many more...

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."— General Douglas MacArthur

"All Leadership is influence."— John C. Maxwell

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."— Walter Lippmann

"The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men" - Miyamoto Musashi

"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around."— Patrick Lencioni

"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."— General Montgomery

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."— Wangari Maathai

"A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management." - Akio Morita

"Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own" - Anne Mulcahy

"I've got to follow them, I'm their leader" - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

"Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative." - Akio Morita

"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself" - Andre Malraux

"The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake." - Akio Morita

"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force." - Andre Maurois

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie" - Ann Landers

"Things may come to those who wait, but only what's left behind by those that hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it" - Abraham Lincoln

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

"The leader who exercises power with honour will work from the inside out, starting with himself" - Blaine Lee

"Big shots are little shots who kept shooting" - Christopher Morley

"Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow" - Deng Ming-Dao

"Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best" - David O. McKay

"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra...Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?" - Dimitri Mitropolous

"Leadership is action, not position" - Donald McGannon

"There comes a time when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear" - David Mahoney

"When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another" - Edward Lorenz

"The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it" - Felix Morley

"Man's rank is his power to uplift" - George MacDonald

"Morale is a state of mind ... it is steadfastness and courage and hope ... it is confidence and zeal and loyalty ... it is staying power, the spirit which endures to the end – the will to win " - George C Marshall

"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women." - Groucho Marx

"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read " - Groucho Marx

"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it" - Giuseppe Mazzini

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail " - Harold R. McAlindon

"Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does." - Harvey Mackay

"Ideas without action are worthless" - Harvey Mackay

"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." - Harvey Mackay

"Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense" - Henry Mintzberg

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." - Harvey Mackay

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward through the night" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"All leadership is influence" - John Maxwell

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them" - John Maxwell

"Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others" - John Maxwell

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon

"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought" - John Stuart Mill

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning" - James Russell Lowell

"Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed" - John Allan May

"The first step to leadership is servanthood" - John Maxwell

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" - John Maxwell

"Nothing is so practical as a good theory" - Kurt Lewin

"You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go" - Lachlan McLean

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all" - Michelangelo

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change" - Mignon McLaughlin

"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it" - Mary's Almanac

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution" - Niccolo Machiavelli

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" - Nelson Mandela

"He that would govern others first should be the master of himself" - Philip Massinger

"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it" - Philip Larkin

"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves” - Peter McArthur

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul Meyer

"The Nobel Peace Prize ... is an instrument with which to fight for peace, for justice, for the rights of those who suffer the abysmal economical, social, cultural and political inequalities" - Rigoberta Menchú

"Getting ahead in a difficult position requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night ... wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes ..." - T.E. Lawrence

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy" - Ursula LeGuin

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards" - Vernon Sanders Law

"Leaders are not born; they are made. And, they are made just like anything else - through hard work. And that is the price we'll have to pay to achieve any goal" - Vince Lombardi

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour" - Vince Lombardi

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on" - Walter Lippman

"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation where common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully" - Walter Lippman

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