To Be A Leader Quotes

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

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

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.

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

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best

True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Some people may regard my views well and show respect to me, and I hope they have not deceived themselves in doing so. Some people think that I am a leader of a movement.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.