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# Leadership & Management
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Context: • Motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, located in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. RMA Sandhurst has served as the officer training school of the British Army since the former's foundation in 1802.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (S)
“Serve To Lead”
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“When we think we lead, we are most led.”
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Context: • John C. Maxwell, in "Leaders Touch a Heart before They Ask for a Hand", in Josh McDowell's Youth Ministry Handbook: Making the Connection (2000), Ch. 14
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
“Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.”
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Context: • Thomas Fuller in Gnomologia (1732), 2746
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (F)
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
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Context: • Philo, Every Good Man is Free, 20
Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.
Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?
Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.
Data: Indeed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.
• Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.
Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?
Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.
Data: Indeed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.
• Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
“He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.”
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More Quotes
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Context: • Motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, located in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. RMA Sandhurst has served as the officer training school of the British Army since the former's foundation in 1802.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (S)
“Serve To Lead”
— Unknown
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“When we think we lead, we are most led.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John C. Maxwell, in "Leaders Touch a Heart before They Ask for a Hand", in Josh McDowell's Youth Ministry Handbook: Making the Connection (2000), Ch. 14
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
“Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Fuller in Gnomologia (1732), 2746
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (F)
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Philo, Every Good Man is Free, 20
Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.
Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?
Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.
Data: Indeed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.
• Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.
Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?
Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.
Data: Indeed?
Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.
• Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
“He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.”
— Unknown
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“Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.”
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Context: • Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (E)
“Many times leaders have one agenda, followers have another.”
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Context: • Aristotle, in Politics as translated by Benjamin Jowett
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (A)
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
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Context: • An unknown comedian is quoted as saying "il faut bien que je les suive, puisque je suis leur chef", Galerie des Contemporains Illustres, vol. 3 (1841), M. Mauguin p. 6; see also Revue Britannique, ser. 6, vol. 30 (1850), p. 342. Attributed to Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, one of the leaders of the February Revolution of 1848 in France, Eugène de Mirecourt, Histoire Contemporaine, No. 79 (1857). James Michael Curley uses this quotation as an epigraph at the beginning of chapter 4 of his autobiography, I'd Do It Again (1957), p. 44, and attributes it to a French Revolutionist. Attribution to Gandhi of "I must follow the people for I am their leader" is made by Leon Howell, "The Delta Ministry", Christianity and Crisis (August 8, 1966), p. 192. Alvin R. Calman, Ledru-Rollin and the Second French Republic (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law), vol. 103, no. 2, (1922), p. 374, says Ledru-Rollin's use of "I am their chief; I must follow them" is probably apocryphal.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (L)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (L)
“There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
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Context: • James Callaghan, The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.”
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Context: • Desmond Tutu, As quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (20 December 1984)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (T)
“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
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Context: • Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) by Stephen R. Covey, p. 101
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (D)
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
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Context: • Fleet Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Navy, graduation address at the United States Naval Academy, 16 June 1942, as quoted by Robert A. Fitton (editor) in Leadership: Quotations From the Military Tradition (1990), p. 193
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (K)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (K)
“Machines are as nothing without men. Men are as nothing without morale.”
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Context: • Henry Miller, "The Wisdom of the Heart" in The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (M)
“The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.”
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Context: • Robin Wall Kimmerer, (16 September 2013), Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants page: 112, publisher: Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 978-1-57131-871-8
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (K)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (K)
“Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.”
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Context: • Robert E. Lee, in a comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (L)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (L)
“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”
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Context: • Marcus Tullius Cicero in Epistulae ad Familiares, I, 9, 21
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
“Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.”
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Context: • James Callaghan, The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (C)
“A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.”
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Context: • George S. Patton, as quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leadership" (P)
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
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“Leadership: whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.”
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