Participative Leadership Quotes:

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

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.

- Rosalynn Carter

topic: Motivational, Leadership, People, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, True Leader

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

- Ray Kroc

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Qualities Of A Leader

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Presidential

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

- Arleigh Burke

source: "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

topic: Leadership, Determination, Jobs, Leadership Skills, Involving

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

- Marian Anderson

topic: Leadership, Understanding, Needs, Women Leadership, Best Leader

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

- Margaret Drabble

topic: Positive, Witty, Empowering, Participative Leadership, Possible And Impossible

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

topic: Respect, Believe, Fall, Participative Leadership, Best Interests At Heart

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Time, Funny Leadership, Leadership Roles

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Influencing People, Inspiring Leader

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Humor, Leadership Skills, Leadership Training

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Leadership, Powerful, Role Models, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Roles

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

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.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership By Famous Leaders

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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Top Management, Funny Leadership

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Leadership, Motivation, People, Leadership Skills, Qualities Of A Leader

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

topic: Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders, Leaders Motivational, Leadership Training

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Leadership, Coaching, Vision, Leadership And Management, Leadership And Vision

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Discipline, Command, Leadership Skills, Participative Leadership, Founding Fathers Democracy

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

- Ross Perot

topic: Leadership, Business, People, Managing People, True Leader

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Leadership, Men, Able, Participative Leadership

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

- Tony Blair

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Art, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

topic: Leadership, Leader, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Development

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Leadership, Running, Thinking, Symphony Orchestras, Definition Of Leadership

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

- Edwin H Friedman

topic: Leadership, Vision, Way, Participative Leadership, Visions Of The Future

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Leadership, Leader, Able, Innovation And Leadership, Leading On

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage