Leadership & Authority Quotes
What’s the difference between being a leader and being an authority figure? A leader can rally, inspire, and motivate their team. An authority is seen as ruling over them, dictating what must be done and when and how. A leader generally focuses on increasing productivity through encouraging enthusiasm and confidence. Meanwhile, an authority generally focuses on increasing productivity through discipline and negative consequences. It’s easy to guess who most people would rather work for.
So what’s the secret to being a good leader? Communication? Attitude? Experience? All of the above? Take some tips from the quotes below and see how we might improve our leadership skills (or how we might encourage others to do so).
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing.
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