To Be A Leader Quotes

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

When I'm looking for a leader who's going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don't want some meek and mild leader or somebody who's going to turn the other cheek.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.