To Be A Leader Quotes

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

Leaders use story to author the future.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

I like guts in my leaders.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.