Top 78 If You Want To Be A Leader Quotes
#1. If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#2. If you want to be a leader, go lead
Seth Godin
#3. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn
#4. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
Travis Bradberry
#5. If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
Barbara Boxer
#6. If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Benjamin Disraeli
#7. If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.
Mike Scioscia
#9. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.
Marcus Garvey
#10. When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
M. Russell Ballard
#11. To be a leader you have to learn to shout! But after you've learned to shout, you have to learn not to!
Terry Pratchett
#12. By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.
Radhe Maa
#13. A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.
Caitlin Doughty
#14. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#15. We have become sons of peace for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
Origen
#16. Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#17. Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.
Donald Trump
#18. The man with the gray eyes is a born leader, and only an idiot would mistake him for anything else.
Amanda Bouchet
#19. If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
Gore Vidal
#22. So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has declared capitalism as such to be unacceptable as a system. The only public figure to do so unhesitatingly was Pope John Paul II.
Eric Hobsbawm
#23. Fine," he said after a long stare down with his leader. "But if they do jump you and slit your throat, we'll get along just fine without ya." "Thanks for the kind words, hermano.
James Dashner
#24. I will only lead by guiding.
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#25. A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."
--Dark Mother
Jeffrey B. Thompson
#26. Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.
Mike Pompeo
#27. There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job ... If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.
Ira C. Eaker
#28. If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.
Bo Schembechler
#29. If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
John C. Maxwell
#30. Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and my Clanmates and StarClan wish it. You're twisting the warrior code to get what you want, just like you did when you were alive.
Erin Hunter
#31. Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.
Tina Fey
#32. You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
Scott Pelley
#33. My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
Hillary Clinton
#34. People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it's a leader's responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it's members want to show you their hearts.
Mike Krzyzewski
#35. If you want me to be a cry baby, I cannot: I am the leader of a country. If you want to give me something and then withdraw it, fine; I must respect your decision.
Joyce Banda
#36. I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.
Jordan Peele
#37. If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Simon Sinek
#38. Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
Richard Marcinko
#39. And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?
Jamie Dimon
#40. You can have all you want out of life if you endeavor to help others. If you want to be a powerful and influential leader, then you simply must recognize this absolute fact.
Jim Rohn
#41. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
Tony Abbott
#42. Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
John C. Maxwell
#43. If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.
John C. Maxwell
#44. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.
Elliott Abrams
#45. The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.
Laozi
#46. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#47. To control and to check means
that I act before I speak.
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Petra Hermans
#48. Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
Ellen Sauerbrey
#50. The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
Oleg Cassini
#51. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#52. If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them.
Brian Staveley
#53. All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#54. We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Nigel Farage
#55. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
Onyi Anyado
#56. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#57. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#58. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#59. On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky
#60. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.
James K. Glassman
#61. Thank U God
for making me such a wonderful person
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#62. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.
Kate Stewart
#63. There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
Ruth J. Simmons
#64. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
Virginia Woolf
#65. Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.
Eric Hoffer
#66. We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
William S. Burroughs
#67. Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
Bill Shuster
#68. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.
Evan Spiegel
#69. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#70. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
Radhe Maa
#71. Sheep follow the crowd, the crowd follow a leader: Be the leader.
Steven Aitchison
#72. We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop
Peter Drucker
#73. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
John Haggai
#74. Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
Warren Buffett
#75. Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins ... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.
Paul Weyrich
#76. The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.
Elena D. Calin
#77. Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.
Mao Zedong
#78. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden