Lead Not Follow Quotes

#1. You should know that I lead, not follow

Kelly Clarkson

#2. 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

#3. Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

Ilchi Lee

#4. I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

Charles Darwin

#5. No good thing comes from the practice of comparison. What farmer is constantly comparing the young sprout he just planted with the mature, fruitful vines and measuring its height against them? Our Vinedresser does not pit us against one another, and we should follow His lead.

Anna Blanc

#6. A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

J.R. Rim

#7. That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Robin Hobb

#8. Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.

Adam Hamilton

#9. You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.

Cameron Diaz

#10. Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock" (1 Pet. 5:3). My interpretation: "These leaders must lead by example for God's people to follow them" I did not say be an example, but by example. In this way they earn their respect from others.

Stephen Everett

#11. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead ...

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Arrian

#13. Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

Gautama Buddha

#14. Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

Julia Quinn

#15. The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

Deepak Chopra

#16. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#18. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.

Eugene V. Debs

#19. The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.

Bill George

#20. Lord, you call me to live in the world without embracing the ways of the world. Help me to live in a way that preserves my freedom to follow you wherever and however you lead. If I should leave behind a monument, may it be a reminder to others of faith and not foolishness.

Ann Spangler

#21. Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Mary Slessor

#22. No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

#23. I'm going to find a way to fix you"
"I'm not broken", Amy says in a voice as empty as her eyes.
I lead her down the hall, deposit her in her chamber, and tell her not lo leave. I have no doubt she will follow my order.

Beth Revis

#24. In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They

Stephen Leacock

#25. Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Simon Sinek

#26. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Criss Jami

#27. Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

Michel Foucault

#28. Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Cleanthes

#29. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Rumi

#30. Loves not always wise, I've learned it. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts ... wherever they take us.

George R R Martin

#31. Noun leaders must have titles and positions. Verb leaders lead by example. Noun leaders say "listen to me" and "Obey me." Verb leaders say: :Follow me" and "Let me serve you." A movement will not survive under leaders that demand titles and positions.

Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.

#32. I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

Carlos Wallace

#33. After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

#34. Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead.

Kelly Bartlett

#35. Don't walk in front of me ... I may not follow
Don't walk behind me ... I may not lead
Walk beside me ... just be my friend

Albert Camus

#36. To follow Beauty even when she shall lead you to the verge of the precipice; and though she is winged and you are wingless, and though she shall pass beyond the verge, follow her, for where Beauty is not, there is nothing;

Kahlil Gibran

#37. Do not follow where the path may lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

Andy Andrews

#39. The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.

Jan L. Richardson

#41. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#42. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

#43. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

Saji Ijiyemi

#44. If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.

Richard Posner

#45. Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Charles Dickens

#46. You found me tonight. Follow your heart, Nikki. No matter where it roams, it'll always lead you back to me, because my heart is always calling to yours. You may choose not to listen for a while, but eventually you'll go where it's leading you.

Heather Burch

#47. I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca The Younger

#48. I wanted him to take over. I wanted to follow his lead, not because I was weak, but because every good warrior used a shield.

Cambria Hebert

#49. We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

John Leo

#50. Love is not possession. Love is letting your loved ones follow their own paths, even if those paths lead them away from you.

Cloris Kylie

#51. Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

Katherine Anne Porter

#52. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

#53. Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Eileen Caddy

#54. We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Epictetus

#55. There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Bertrand Russell

#56. Lead me not into temptation. Follow me instead! I know a shortcut! - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#57. [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke

#58. When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

Shane Claiborne

#59. You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

William Penn

#61. Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates.
Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.

Paulo Coelho

#62. Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

#63. Heartbreak is how we mature ... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

David Whyte

#64. If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

Mao Zedong

#65. Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Simon Sinek

#66. Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.

Michael Ealy