Top 100 Leaders Lead Quotes
#1. Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.
Jeb Bush
#2. Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
Tony Blair
#3. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
#4. Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
Noel Coward
#6. Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
Seth Godin
#7. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#8. Successful leaders leaders lead with passion and compassion.
Farshad Asl
#9. The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.
Shirley Franklin
#11. In a culture of honor, leaders lead with honor by courageously treating people according to the names God gives them and not according to the aliases they receive from people.
Danny Silk
#12. When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.
Mark Miller
#14. Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
Bill Hybels
#15. Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
Myles Munroe
#16. Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.
Christopher Babson
#17. Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.
David Amerland
#18. Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.
Gary Haugen
#19. Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.
Stewart Stafford
#20. 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.
#21. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.
Harold Klemp
#22. I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.
Rush Limbaugh
#23. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Mark Miller
#24. And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.
Neal Shusterman
#25. 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
#26. You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?
Sunday Adelaja
#27. The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment
John Sculley
#28. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai
Barack Obama
#30. For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.
Donna Lynn Hope
#31. The deficiency of the negro race is not as a result of the deluge number of bad leaders;rather, its is an outcome of the shortage of young negro intellect ready to lead a revolutionary africa.
Victor Adeagbo
#32. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.
Brene Brown
#33. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Rick Warren
#34. An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
Bernard Cornwell
#35. Leaders are not worried about what they can't do; they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
John C. Maxwell
#37. Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.
Marc Marcel
#38. When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
Peter Senge
#39. Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.
Awdhesh Singh
#40. Don't be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.
Berti Vogts
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#47. We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.
Dave Matthews
#48. To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#49. I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.
Ellen Malcolm
#50. The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#51. When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead humanity to peace.
Timothy Pina
#52. Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.
Greg Cagle
#53. You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.
Ed Stetzer
#54. 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
#55. Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.
Phil Mickelson
#57. Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.'
'And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.
Jeanette Winterson
#58. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.
Neal Shusterman
#60. Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.
Nelson Mandela
#61. There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.
Simon Sinek
#62. Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
Fela Durotoye
#63. Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H.G.Wells
#64. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
Israelmore Ayivor
#65. We are all God's people; we have to get along and the religious leaders have to lead the way. If they don't do it, who else is going to do it? They're not going to do it and it's left to musicians or to someone else to deal with it.
Elton John
#66. If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. 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
#68. For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.
Patrick Dodson
#69. In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people ... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard
#70. 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
#71. I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
Ben Quayle
#72. The greatest leaders can inspire you and lead the way without ever having to give you their back.
Steve Maraboli
#73. Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.
Erin Gruwell
#74. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Richard Rohr
#76. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
Peter Yarrow
#77. few groups of leaders actually work like a team, at least not the kind that is required to lead a healthy organization.
Patrick Lencioni
#78. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.
Michael Hyatt
#80. There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
John Paul Warren
#81. Teachers and leaders and storytellers and healers will grow from the earth like blessed flowers, blossoming outward with Divine guidance, to lead the rest.
Stacie Hammond
#82. 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
#83. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren't actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.
Simon Sinek
#86. To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.
John C. Maxwell
#87. I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.
Kofi Annan
#88. Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
Dennis Bakke
#89. Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
Will Rogers
#90. But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.
Christian Cameron
#91. International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.
Hassan Rouhani
#92. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. One of the primary mistakes that leaders today make, when called to lead, is spending most of their time and energy trying to improve things at the organizational level before ensuring that they have adequately addressed their own credibility at individual, one-on-one, or team leadership levels.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#94. God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It's your responsible to make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.
Julie F. Parker
#97. Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.
James MacDonald
#98. Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.
Daniel Amen
#100. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.
Myles Munroe
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