What’s your favorite leadership quote?

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16 Leadership Quotes to Inspire You To Greatness
By: Ilya Pozin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyapozin/2014/04/10/16-leadership-quotes-to-inspire-you-to-greatness/

This article provided a fantastic collection of famous quotes from inspirational leaders. You will find 16 quotes below from the article, what is your favorite one and why? If you your favorite leadership quote is not below, what is it?

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

2. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

3. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

4. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams

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

6. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey

7. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

8. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

9. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

10. “To lead people, walk behind them.” – Lao Tzu

11. “The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt

12. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

13. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”- Norman Schwarzkopf

14. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”- Henry Ford

15. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” – Publilius Syrus

16. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.”- Reed Markham

16 Leadership Quotes To Inspire You To Greatness

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Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Jul 20 at 2015 11:30 PM

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We are all stronger in the broken places.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 20 at 2015 11:37 PM

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"Nothing can be done without passion."

Response by COL Mikel J. Burroughs made Jul 20 at 2015 11:43 PM

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CW3 Private RallyPoint Member “There’s always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.”
― Lieutenant General Harold Gregory Moore Jr.

Response by CPO Joseph Grant made Jul 20 at 2015 11:55 PM

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Lead, Follow or get the hell out of the way.

Response by CSM Michael J. Uhlig made Jul 21 at 2015 2:17 AM

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Follow Me!

That sums it all up without all the extra pretty words.

Response by GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad made Jul 21 at 2015 3:35 AM

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"The difficult we do right away ... the impossible takes a little longer."

Response by SCPO David Lockwood made Jul 21 at 2015 5:50 AM

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You manage things; you lead people. (Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper)

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 7:05 AM

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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

Response by SGM Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 7:09 AM

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The more we wait for inspired leadership, the less inspired we become! Be the spark that lights the fire!

Response by SFC Stephen King made Jul 21 at 2015 8:29 AM

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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

Winston Churchill

Response by SGT Ben Keen made Jul 21 at 2015 9:02 AM

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"You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case". —Ken Kesey

Response by SPC David S. made Jul 21 at 2015 7:02 PM

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Sure there are many anecdotal quotes regarding leadership I like - however “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” —Jack Welch

Response by SFC Maury Gonzalez made Jul 21 at 2015 7:11 PM

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"Don't complain, train", it's what I always told the I'm a non commissioned OFFICER types. You know who they are, never around until the csm or the cdr show up, dissappear just as fast and take credits for others work

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Jul 21 at 2015 7:24 PM

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One of my favorites. It is a little long but it hits some really key points for me.
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Leadership, even within the military, is a social contract in the purest sense of the expression, predicated equally on the leader's desire to lead and on the consent of those led. It is grounded in the subordinate's trust in the leader and institution. The leader, therefore, must clearly demonstrate the true underpinnings of his moral authority - his unquestionable character. The subordinate's faith in the leader's integrity must not be violated...

Marines are ultimately judged by the quality of their leadership and by the quality of the leader reflected in their subordinates. A complex phenomenon, nearly defying description, leadership is fundamentally a reflection of an individuals values, education, training and experience. It is the precious amalgam of his or her lifelong efforts at personal and professional improvement. It is above all else a product of character.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 8:09 PM

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This might be a bit of a stretch for leadership ... and, then again, maybe not.

Response by CW4 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 8:15 PM

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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way"

John C. Maxwell

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Jul 21 at 2015 8:17 PM

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"The buck stops here". How much better would things be today if someone would just step up and take responsibility. Until they do, America is rudderless...

Response by SPC George Rudenko made Jul 21 at 2015 8:55 PM

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I should have kissed the bastard.

Response by SMSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 9:37 PM

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Pray not for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. President John F. Kennedy.

Response by SGT Richard H. made Jul 21 at 2015 9:45 PM

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It changes, time-to-time, but currently it's
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept" ~Lt. General David Morrison

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 21 at 2015 9:45 PM

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Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

2LT James Hill,
Fort Benning Georgia,
Officer Candidate School 1991.

Response by MSgt Chris Adams made Jul 21 at 2015 10:07 PM

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My guys put this on my going away gift from Beale.
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." -- Walter Lippmann

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 22 at 2015 9:54 PM

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Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 22 at 2015 10:03 PM

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I don't know who said this, but mine is, "Soldiers don't do what you expect, they only do what you inspect."

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jul 23 at 2015 4:19 AM

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"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"
~SGTMAJ Dan Daly

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jul 23 at 2015 3:28 PM

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Fire at will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Response by MSgt Alan H made Jul 23 at 2015 4:50 PM

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Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

Response by SrA Edward Vong made Jul 24 at 2015 2:23 AM

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"Only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Dec 18 at 2015 5:43 PM

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This is my quote: If you act with purity, you will have less to regret in the future.

Response by SSgt Boyd Herrst made Sep 15 at 2017 6:07 PM

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I was holding down the line while the other Line Chefs were at lunch and about 4 orders came in on the printer right after another.. 1. a third lb Gr -rd burger, light sautéed onion, Tom, Let and aioli on the side. 2. Half order, deep fr. onion strips,
3. Half order deep fr. Shrooms 4. Order of stuffed shrooms, horseradish chse
Instead of jack. I can see these guys are playing me.... yep ! That change meant I had to go off the line to the cooler. ..
I was back really quick, finding what i needed.. So I got all their orders working and set up their plates.. Plated it all and sent them out together.. a few minutes later the server came back and the guys were complaining because it came out together.. geez ! What is their major
Malfunction, everything came in together it went out together!.. What did they want, the server to make 4 trips? .. I had also made my lunch and it was ready also.. as they came back, I briefed the window guy and went to lunch.. no more orders came as i was having my lunch in the bar.. I would be off in another hour and a half .. I got back to the line and the guys were wiping down.. there couldn't have been much I had kept it pretty clean.. So... were you busy while I was at lunch, I asked. Not a ticket, Chef..
hmm ... the most junior guy was pulling pans and getting reset up for dinner., the others were leaning on the counter..
ok, you know my saying: "you got time to lean.. you got time to clean !" let's give J some help.. ..

"Anybody can hold the helm when the sea is calm !" Get on the stick and get this line done!.. in a few minutes we were done.... it doesn't take long when e'body pitches in. I went back and made a count in the cooler.. against the production sheet.. everything done..
And my relief and the other crew is in. I brief him and then and go get signed out..

Response by Sgt Wayne Wood made Sep 15 at 2017 7:17 PM

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Move your ass, Marine

Response by SGT David Petree made Sep 15 at 2017 11:06 PM

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Right or wrong make a dession . Someone will always 2nd guess you.

Response by MSgt Roger Settlemyer made Sep 15 at 2017 11:38 PM

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DUTY HONOR COUNTRY FIRST TIME I HEARD IT WAS FROM GENERAL DOUGLAS MCARTHUR

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 17 at 2017 9:47 PM

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"Once your Soldiers stop coming up to you with their questions and concerns you've failed them as a leader" -OPS SGM

Response by SPC David Willis made Dec 11 at 2017 4:42 PM

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"Do, or do not... there is no try"- Jedi Master Yoda

Response by 1SG Leo Leal made Jan 18 at 2018 3:30 PM

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“Good enough, isn’t “

Response by CH (LTC) Robert Leroe made Jan 18 at 2018 9:39 PM

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There are 3 kinds of people:
 Those who make things happen;
 Those who watch things happen;
 Those who wonder “What happened?”

Response by Capt Karlos Nordinsifeller made Oct 25 at 2018 5:10 PM

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“Don’t tell your men what to do, tell them what you want done. They will amaze you with their ingenuity “.

Response by SFC William Stephens A. Jr., 3 MSM, JSCM made Oct 26 at 2018 7:56 AM

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LEADERS LEAD from the front!

Response by CSM Stuart Fuller made Jun 19 at 2019 10:39 PM

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Dont be the NCO that did not train them

Response by Sgt Robert M Roush made Jun 20 at 2019 1:18 AM

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Know your God. Know your business. Know your men. Know yourself.
Be the one that you would follow to hell and back.
It is called Moral courage.

Response by SFC Tim Mosher made Jul 22 at 2019 9:08 AM

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Any time you let a standard slide, you set a new standard.

Response by CPT Stanley Reed made Jul 31 at 2019 8:59 PM

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LT's motto: Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations.

Response by Maj John Bell made Jul 31 at 2019 9:39 PM

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"If not this... What?, If not now... When? If not me... Who?"

or

"Winning is not nearly as impressive as just stepping up."

Response by SFC Tim Mosher made Aug 1 at 2019 11:04 AM

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There is no "I" in Team...But there is in "Tim", and "I" don't care, get it done! - My own original.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Aug 8 at 2019 8:53 AM

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Been there, done that (BTDT)....

Response by SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth made Feb 17 at 2020 6:34 AM

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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.