Leadership Quotes for Filipino Motivational Speakers

By Jef Menguin

Your favorite quotations reflect the way you see life, or at least your ideals of what life should be. Below are my favorite leadership quotes. I think anyone who has the desire to lead people — managers, supervisors, teachers, CEOs, motivational speakers and others — will benefit from these leadership quotes.

When I was looking for these quotes, I actually wonder if the presidential candidates like Noynoy and Bro. Eddie have the leadership characteristics we all need. Of course, I also thought of Gibo and Dick Gordon. And there are those  who have people working for them (for money), but do not  have real followers. Followers are at the very least those who support the candidates because they believe in them. Not because they’ll be funded for the elections, or paid to say something nice.

I also thought of Filipino motivational speakers. I have heard many of them quoting the same guys. Well, I like to quote myself most of the times, but I do not see anything bad in quoting those who have said something memorable and profound. To motivational speakers in the Philippines, let me share with you these quotes. These will help us rethink our “big ideas”.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George Patton

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. — Publius Syrus

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. — James Thomas

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. — Philip Armour

A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter F. Drucker

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. — Mary D. Poole

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter F. Drucker

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren Bennis

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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. — Elaine Agather

About: Jef Menguin is a Filipino motivational speaker and training consultant. He designs and facilitates training programs for companies. You can connect to Jef Menguin through his website – http://jefmenguin.com – and email: inspire@jefmenguin.com