How To Be A Leader Quotes

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)

So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.