Lead Yourself Quotes

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#2. I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Jason Giambi

#3. To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Go out and lead the world; but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can't lead the environment if you can't lead yourself in it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Bottom line: If you lack an underlying commitment to self-mastery and growth, even the best theory won't help you lead yourself or a team to success.

Anonymous

#6. You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Before You Can Lead Others, You Must Be Able to Lead Yourself.

John Wooden

#9. Lead yourself or someone else will. People can either be the wind on your sails or the anchor on your tail...you get to figure it out !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#10. When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Viola Davis

#11. You can't lead people if you can't lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Dee Hock

#13. It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

Bill Jensen

#14. Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.

Ryan Lilly

#15. Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

Mario Teguh

#16. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#17. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.

Vernon Sproxton

#19. A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

Randy Couture

#20. When you can't find the answers inside yourself God will lead you to someone who does.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. Let's see where today will lead us tomorrow babe."

~ Payton Heights

Dela Cruz

#22. Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

Philippe Petit

#23. You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

James M. Kouzes

#24. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

#25. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

Phillip Moffitt

#26. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.

Archibald Marwizi

#27. Gratitude is more than just a simple "thank you" when you receive a gift. It is about keeping in mind that you live right now, allowing yourself to focus on the moment and appreciate the life you lead, to focus on all that you do have, not what you don't. Cliches? Totally.

Meik Wiking

#28. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#29. For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Carol S. Dweck

#30. You can't lead me down that road.

Taylor Swift

#31. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

A.C. Dixon

#32. Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Michel Houellebecq

#33. If you think equality will stop the fighting, you're deluding yourself! If everyone receives the same compensation, they will stop working for it, which will lead to the weakening of our nation! The only result will be conflict born from poverty!

Adachitoka

#34. If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation.

Kristin Neff

#35. You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#36. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#37. Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#38. Don't let yourself be blinded by your rage in quarrels, that will only lead to mistakes and death, and remember that bravery is worth nothing if it's not matched by intelligence.

Anonymous

#39. Don't keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You may grow weary and weary! Mistakes lead to discovery, but not all the time! Mind your mind, and for a moment, realize where you have reach, and drop your loads!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#40. You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do you stubbornly embrace the City culture of Earth's present day. We felt that people such as yourself were the ones that could lead Earthmen to the stars once more.

Isaac Asimov

#41. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

A.J. Darkholme

#42. Test your talents, pursue your passions, and let those experiences lead you to a sure sense of who you are. Build a strong core for yourself so that almost nothing and no one can shake you from that foundation. Don't be afraid to know what you want and go after it.

Mary Esselman

#43. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Hannibal Buress

#45. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!

Israelmore Ayivor

#46. ... do not ask yourself which kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western..Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, definitions'.

Elif Shafak

#47. You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead.

Marcus Buckingham

#48. The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

Steve Winwood

#49. The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

Kay Arthur

#50. Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones

Robin Sharma

#52. To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?

Chris Guillebeau

#53. Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.

Thomas Narofsky

#54. [If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

A.J. Darkholme

#55. What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

Israelmore Ayivor

#56. The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Garth Nix

#57. Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

John Wooden

#58. Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.

Paulo Coelho

#59. Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance - toward yourself!

Bryant McGill

#60. The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all ... It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well ... you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.

Bob Buford

#61. If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

Mike Scioscia

#62. If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

Goldie Hawn

#63. Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.

Mollie Marti

#64. Control is only an illusion to calm yourself into believing things will go a certain way. give up control, let life lead and you will find a rich discovery.

Jennifer Probst

#65. If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

Israelmore Ayivor

#66. If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

Bradford Winters

#67. You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Ken Robinson

#68. Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#69. It's always a good idea to ask yourself, Where is this decision likely to lead? When you do, you can avoid many hassles and mistakes that are otherwise inevitable. By asking this simple question, you can keep your energy directed in areas that will serve you and others well.

Richard Carlson

#70. What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#71. A true friend will never lead you to do something hurtful towards yourself or others but will help out with good things towards you

Timothy Pina

#72. believe that desire is God-given, and that following that impulse is using your intuition. It will lead you to the correct place. Be a leader. Be an inspiration and declare yourself!

Mandy Ingber

#73. The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

Israelmore Ayivor

#74. You stay in your comfortable houses built by your fathers. I stay on my own. You lead secure lives. I lead my life with no security. You say you are leading a meaningful life. And I laugh at you.

Avijeet Das

#75. That MacGregor and Bibighar are the place of the white and the place of the black? To get from one to the other you could not cross by a bridge but had to your courage in your hands and enter the flood and let yourself be taken with it, lead where it may.

Paul Scott

#76. Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

A.H. Almaas

#77. You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Gene Mauch

#78. You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Alexander Kluge

#79. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,

J.R.D. Tata

#80. Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

John Newton

#81. If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

Laozi

#82. If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them.

Lao-Tzu

#83. 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

#84. Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.

Show the world with presence, actions & the way you lead your life, who you are.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#85. I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

John Kasich

#86. Being honest to yourself is the smartest you can ever do.Do no allow the words of others to lead you to a road of confussion, follow your heart beat.

Osunsakin Adewale

#87. Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

Elizabeth Lesser

#88. You have left a trail of breadcrumb clues which will lead you to the place where your purpose and passion have already met and are simply waiting for you to find them.

Jacob Nordby

#89. The more you choose to do things that uplift yourself and others the more your Spirit can shine, can heal you, can lead your life. What can you do today to uplift yourself? To uplift others?

Sonia Choquette

#90. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Robert Crumb

#91. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.

Steve Maraboli

#92. Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

LeCrae

#93. You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer

#94. Your path in life will lead you to places you have never dreamed of. You have to believe in yourself.

Peggy M. McAloon

#95. Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#96. You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people's assignments instead of pursing yours!

Israelmore Ayivor

#97. One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#98. I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

Greg Behrendt

#99. When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

Rick Warren

#100. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Frank Herbert