To Be A Leader Quotes

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.