To Be A Leader Quotes

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!