Top 100 Follow Leader Quotes
#1. To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Joe Namath
#2. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations
Haile Selassie
#3. Now that you have a bit of respect, you value your standing in the group and don't want to jeopardize it. To maintain and then gain status, you play a game of follow-the-leader, conforming to prove your worth as a group member. As
Adam M. Grant
#4. Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.
Cesar Millan
#5. Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
Simon Sinek
#6. There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.
James Tracy
#7. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#9. PEOPLE WOULD RATHER FOLLOW A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS REAL VERSUS A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT. DON'T TRY TO BE A PERFECT LEADER, JUST WORK ON BEING AN AUTHENTIC ONE.
Brad Lomenick
#10. When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
John C. Maxwell
#11. Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.
Mary Kay Ash
#14. If you allow the life to happen, by connecting with your inner world, then you don't have to worry about the changes with your perception or the change in the outside world. All you have to do is to follow your inner truth, to reach to your destination.
Roshan Sharma
#15. Be a follower. Be a leader. Learn what it means to be both. Don't follow a follower. Follow your heart. Be careful of frauds. They are all around us.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#16. A real leader will always follow
Anonymous
#17. A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
Tony Dungy
#18. Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.
Marianne Williamson
#19. If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are not a leader. That's the Law of Influence.
John C. Maxwell
#20. A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he 'leads' himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.
Awdhesh Singh
#21. The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#22. You know you have arrived as a leader when people follow you because they want to, not because they have to.
Steve Gilliland
#24. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
Lee Kuan Yew
#25. A leader is not someone who says: Follow me ... A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.
Neale Donald Walsch
#26. People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
Bill Hybels
#27. There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.
John C. Maxwell
#29. The Christian leader who seeks an example to follow does well to turn to the life of Jesus Himself.
J. Oswald Sanders
#30. You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.
Awdhesh Singh
#31. Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.
Bernard Cornwell
#32. And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader's vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
Simon Sinek
#33. Where another person sees problems, a leader sees possibilities ... Leaders must have the courage to follow their vision, to believe in the invisible, to work for something that's still only a possibility, while others often wring their hands in despair.
Diane Dreher
#34. My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.
Bubba Watson
#36. You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
Colin Powell
#37. A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.
Suzy Kassem
#38. How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
Andy Grove
#39. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men
the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
#41. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.
Debasish Mridha
#42. You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
Branford Marsalis
#43. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy
#44. Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Indra Nooyi
#45. A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
Joel A. Barker
#47. People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.
Chris Alexander
#48. The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
Masaru Ibuka
#50. 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.'
Pierce Brown
#51. If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.
John C. Maxwell
#52. I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal
#54. Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen
#55. Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
Mollie Marti
#56. Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.
Marc Marcel
#57. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
Saji Ijiyemi
#58. God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.
Jim George
#59. The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.
Isaac Marion
#60. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#61. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.
Richard Diaz
#62. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
Chris Alexander
#63. An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders.
Mildred Ramsey
#64. Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling ... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.
Christine Vachon
#65. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.
Beth Ramsay
#66. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn
#67. If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.
Richard Chase
#68. Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Lisa Leslie
#69. If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#70. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The
Napoleon Hill
#71. There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
Derek Sivers
#73. Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
Simon Sinek
#74. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#75. Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends
Imran Khan
#76. The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn't well-rounded?
Andy Stanley
#77. Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.
Anita Dunn
#78. A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
Nelson Mandela
#79. The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
Ilana Mercer
#80. The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.
Georg Brandes
#81. If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.
John C. Maxwell
#82. Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.
Ben Greenhalgh
#83. Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson
#84. Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#85. A leader may lead, but you have to follow to reach the destination.
Debasish Mridha
#86. I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.
Adrian Peterson
#87. It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
Brian Herbert
#88. You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.
Chris Christie
#89. Sheep follow the crowd, the crowd follow a leader: Be the leader.
Steven Aitchison
#90. A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow.
Amit Abraham
#91. Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
Seth Godin
#93. I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.
Eli Manning
#94. Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.
Pierce Brown
#97. We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.
Lars Iyer
#98. Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.
Debasish Mridha
#99. As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
Talib Kweli
#100. World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.
George Ogilvie
