Top 100 Lead People Quotes
#1. You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.
Charles Kennedy
#2. There are three types of people out there; those who lean, those who lift, and those who lead. People who lean immobilize you; stay away from them. People who lift inspire you; keep them near. People who lead positively influence you; seek them out.
Farshad Asl
#3. If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
James Purefoy
#4. Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#5. Not mastery but service, will lead people in the right way.
Albert Einstein
#6. To lead people, you must follow behind.
Lao-Tzu
#7. If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
Robert Kiyosaki
#8. To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.
Laura Kreitzer
#9. Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.
Tami Hoag
#10. As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Adam Hamilton
#11. Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.
Julian Simon
#12. To lead people, walk beside them.
Lao-Tzu
#13. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness(2Timothy 2:16).
Euginia Herlihy
#14. I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
#15. We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.
Whoopi Goldberg
#16. A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin
#17. If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.
S.E. Hinton
#18. How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.
Robert Jordan
#19. We lead people, but we manage things.
Sam Chand
#20. Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
Condoleezza Rice
#21. But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.
Tommy Tenney
#22. It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
L.M. Montgomery
#23. Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in.
Ian Maclaren
#26. In Lerner's experiments, the desperate need to make sense of events can lead people to inaccurate conclusions (for example, a woman "led on" a rapist);
Jonathan Haidt
#27. I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.
Steve Garvey
#28. To lead people walk behind them.
Lao-Tzu
#29. If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.
John C. Maxwell
#30. We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
Peter Drucker
#31. You cannot lead people you do not influence.
Johnny Hunt
#32. I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me.
George W. Bush
#33. You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
Taylor Hanson
#34. God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.
George Muller
#35. You can't lead people you don't believe in.
Johnny Hunt
#36. Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren't actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.
Simon Sinek
#37. If you want to govern the people,
You must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead people,
You must learn how to follow them.
Lao-Tzu
#38. I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance ... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#39. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Rick Warren
#40. We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton
#41. About 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering - to personality and the ability to lead people.
Dale Carnegie
#42. People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
Paul Ekman
#43. Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.
Margaret Mead
#44. We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
Simon Sinek
#45. You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
Grace Hopper
#46. One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
Peter Drucker
#47. In order to successfully lead people to salvation, it is necessary for you to be righteous and free from sin, living by the spirit and reject the works of the flesh.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#49. You can't lead people if you can't lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.
Marcus J. Borg
#51. In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.
Derek Jeter
#52. By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
Terence McKenna
#53. Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
John C. Maxwell
#54. All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
Andre Balazs
#55. I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.
David Draiman
#56. One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
Shane Claiborne
#57. There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
Iggy Azalea
#58. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
Wu Wei
#59. You can't give what you don't have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
Laozi
#61. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg
#62. I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
Paul Mooney
#63. You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Phil Crosby
#64. Music must lead people, don't you think?" asked Thies. "If it follows whatever the popular taste happens to be, then what's its value?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#65. When you lead people through difficult change, you take them on an emotional roller coaster because you are asking them to relinquish something - a belief, a value, a behavior - that they hold dear. People can stand only so much change at any one time.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#66. The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.
James M. Kouzes
#67. Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4
Steven Pinker
#68. To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tzu
#69. Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.
John R. Levine
#70. You can't lead people to where you've not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally,
Jocelyn Davis
#72. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.
Terry Goodkind
#73. I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them
Paul Van Dyk
#75. The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.
Bruce Wilkinson
#77. The three most important ways to lead people are: ... by example ... by example ... by example.
Albert Schweitzer
#78. How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. The primary duty of every minister is to lead people into the "Promised Land.
Sunday Adelaja
#80. The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"
Peter Drucker
#81. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson
#83. I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.
Stephen Harper
#84. No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation
need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.
Salman Ahmad
#85. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.
D.E. Stevenson
#86. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
Liam O'Flaherty
#87. There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
Haile Selassie
#88. Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.
Andrea Yates
#89. There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#90. Stay away from these three people if you want to lead a happy healthy stress free life. Lawyers,Doctors and Priests. Lawyers take your money,Doctors take your health and Priests take your soul.
Lou Silluzio
#91. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy
#92. President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg
#93. I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Arthur Ashe
#94. Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.
Dick Armey
#95. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
C.S. Lewis
#96. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there, because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Bangor,
Stephen King
#97. Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.
Charles Grandison Finney
#98. Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people - perhaps many people - to death, grief, torment?
Greg Bear
#99. Sharing pillow talk with the wrong people can make a hard bed to lie on, and will surely lead to nightmares in your relationship.
Carlos Wallace
#100. I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
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