Top 100 A Leader Is Quotes
#1. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
Parker J. Palmer
#2. Power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
#3. The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
#4. A leader is someone who has the capacity to create a compelling vision that takes people to a new place, and to translate that vision into action.
Richard Wolfe
#5. To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.
Vince Lombardi
#6. A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
Simon Sinek
#7. A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#8. The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#9. A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.
Krishna Sagar
#11. Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.
Andy Stanley
#12. A key thing in being a leader is you've got to pause yourself.
Ben Horowitz
#13. The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.
John Fairclough
#15. A leader is someone who influences outcomes and inspires others.
Courtney Lynch
#16. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.
Terry Pratchett
#17. It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. When you identify the discomfort, you've found the place where a leader is needed.
Seth Godin
#18. During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
Mike Krzyzewski
#19. A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Sam Houston
#20. The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.
Marcus Buckingham
#21. I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
Gautam Gambhir
#22. To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.
Charles Eisenstein
#23. The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
Irene Rosenfeld
#24. The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.
Susan Collins
#27. A leader is he who has a great vision and can inspire others to go along to pursue it with all great passion.
Debasish Mridha
#28. A leader is not born; Teachers make the one.
Vikrmn
#29. The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.
Roy Spence
#30. Any Idiot can point out a problem ... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!
Tony Robbins
#31. Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace
Timothy Keller
#32. A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
Robert Reich
#33. One mark of a leader is his willingness to share information.
Alex Ferguson
#34. A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Being a Leader is not about Making Yourself
More Powerful .. It's About Making People around You More Powerful !!!
Naveen Reddy
#36. The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
Howard G. Hendricks
#37. Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.
Laurie Beth Jones
#38. A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
Margaret Thatcher
#39. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
Yoshida Shoin
#40. One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you
and you alone
to whom the others look for final guidance.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#41. The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Joseph Batten
#42. The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.
Kevin T. Cunningham
#43. It's easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.
Darren Hardy
#44. The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
Marianne Williamson
#45. To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene Brown
#46. To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times
Peter Koestenbaum
#47. Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success
Ray Bergman
#48. One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
Sanford I. Weill
#49. The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.
Pearl Zhu
#51. A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.
Debasish Mridha
#52. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#54. My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
#55. The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.
David Cottrell
#56. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
#57. A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
Orrin Woodward
#58. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.
Max DePree
#59. The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.
John C. Maxwell
#60. When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#61. Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#62. People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
Dick Costolo
#63. Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
Tony Robbins
#64. A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don't.
Eraldo Banovac
#65. The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#66. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.
Harold Kurstedt
#67. The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence
Sunday Adelaja
#68. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
Howard Schultz
#69. The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.
Claire A. Murray
#70. In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
John Erskine
#71. The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants
Rick Warren
#72. A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
Mike Huckabee
#73. I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
Colin Powell
#74. The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#76. A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
Warren G. Bennis
#77. A leader is criticised for whatever he does as all his actions benefit some and adversely affect others. When other people commit the same mistake, they can be forgiven or ignored, but never a leader, for his actions affect a large number of people.
Awdhesh Singh
#78. Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
Colin Powell
#79. A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest.
Jeffrey Fry
#80. The first step to being a leader is realizing that you're not one.
Royce Coleman
#81. When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Robert Townsend
#82. It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.
Assegid Habtewold
#83. Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Rudolf Hess
#84. The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.
Simon Sinek
#85. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
Bill Courtney
#87. My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.
Josh Freeman
#88. Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
Peter F. Drucker
#89. Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.
Dwyane Wade
#91. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#92. Quaker author Parker Palmer said, "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself . . . lest the act of leadership create more harm than good."[5]
Lance Witt
#93. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
#94. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#95. Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence
Tony Robbins
#96. The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.
Chris Bosh
#97. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. A leader is one who ... Has more faith in people than they do, and ... who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#99. A leader in the leader is your positional status in the body while the leader in a leader is Christ in you the hope of glory
Ikechukwu Joseph
#100. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
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