To Be A Leader Quotes

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

Seek people who seek solutions.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

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.

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.

A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

A political leader worthy of assassination

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

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

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.

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

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

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

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

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.

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