Top 73 Leadership Followers Quotes
#1. Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. Too many kings can ruin an army
Homer
#3. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Vince Lombardi
#4. The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.
Ralph Nader
#5. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#6. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#7. Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
Gail Sheehy
#8. The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
Laozi
#9. Adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. Followers of today are the leaders of tomorrow, remember there is a costly price for every step towards the leadership destination.
Euginia Herlihy
#11. A leader must produce other leaders. Why do you want to produce followers, when by being called a leader the assumption is that you already have followers? Influence those who follow to birth their kind and develop others to lead.
Archibald Marwizi
#12. She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.
Dennis Hastert
#13. Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
Warren G. Bennis
#14. Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.
Karen Marie Moning
#15. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Brian Tracy
#17. A true leader is someone who can turn people from followers into leaders
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!
Dave Anderson
#19. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
#20. It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.
Kevin Lowe
#21. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell
#22. He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
Mary Parker Follett
#24. He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.
Malcolm X
#25. Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.
Geert Hofstede
#26. Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.
Judith M Bardwick
#27. Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.
James Stockdale
#28. A true leader sticks up for his followers.
Auliq Ice
#29. The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
Mary Parker Follett
#30. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.
Marlene Caroselli
#32. Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
Debasish Mridha
#33. True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.
David Niven
#34. Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
J.R. Rim
#37. True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.
Myles Munroe
#38. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#39. Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
Bill Hybels
#40. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Warren G. Bennis
#41. A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow.
Amit Abraham
#42. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Myles Munroe
#44. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#45. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#46. Eaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way ... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
Michelle Grattan
#47. Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.
Michael Hyatt
#48. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#49. A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#50. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#51. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
Debashis Chatterjee
#52. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
Garry Wills
#53. In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
John C. Maxwell
#54. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. 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
#56. Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
James MacGregor Burns
#57. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#58. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. Suspense consumes your opponents, whereas mystery intrigues your followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.
Peter Northouse
#62. At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.
David Gergen
#63. When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.
Bertrand Russell
#64. I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.
Christina Engela
#65. 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
#66. If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
John C. Maxwell
#67. I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#68. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max De Pree
#69. You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.
Tonya Hurley
#70. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#71. Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I'm a leader - a leader of one with followers of none.
Jarod Kintz
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