Top 100 Quotes About Being A Leader
#1. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond
#2. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!
Scott Neilson
#3. That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.
Joey Harrington
#4. Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.
LeBron James
#5. Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
Guy Lafleur
#6. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#7. Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
Steve Nash
#8. Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
Seth Godin
#9. I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume
#10. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
#11. I didn't like being a leader. I always had to appear confident for the sake of the others, even when I wasn't.
Rick Riordan
#12. Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.
Dwyane Wade
#13. Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
Zainab Salbi
#14. Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Toni Morrison
#15. My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
Mr. T
#16. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#17. Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.
Jessamyn West
#18. Being a leader can be a lonely job because you are required to make decisions that may not be popular.
Neryl Joyce
#19. Being a leader was nerve-wracking, but with responsibility comes great admiration.
Felicia Day
#20. It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
Bill Owens
#21. Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
Travis Bradberry
#22. There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.
Trey Burke
#23. The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
Jon Oringer
#25. Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
James Altucher
#26. The first step to being a leader is realizing that you're not one.
Royce Coleman
#27. The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.
Claire A. Murray
#28. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
Howard Schultz
#29. Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.
Kobe Bryant
#30. Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
Tony Robbins
#31. I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
Bill Kreutzmann
#32. Being a leader means someone is always watching you.
Leigh Bardugo
#34. One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you
and you alone
to whom the others look for final guidance.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#35. Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.
James Patterson
#36. Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
Seth Godin
#37. Being a Leader is not about Making Yourself
More Powerful .. It's About Making People around You More Powerful !!!
Naveen Reddy
#38. The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe ... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.
Gordon Brown
#39. Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I
remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his
teammates, and that really caught my eye.
Jorge Posada
#40. Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
James Altucher
#41. Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
Andrew Whitworth
#42. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.
Terry Pratchett
#43. A key thing in being a leader is you've got to pause yourself.
Ben Horowitz
#44. I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
Renee Olstead
#46. Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Lisa Leslie
#47. You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.
Nelson Mandela
#48. Becoming a leader is the same as becoming a fully integrated human being,
Ken Wilber
#49. As I wisely understand to be recognized
as a normal being to be free forever.
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#50. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
Kanye West
#51. Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.
John C. Maxwell
#52. Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
#53. Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Courtney Love
#54. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#55. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
Jaha Knight
#56. Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
John Amery
#57. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Kevin Allen
#58. Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling ... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.
Christine Vachon
#59. I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented.
Donald Trump
#60. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
Anne Sweeney
#61. People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.
Carly Fiorina
#62. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.
Michael Eric Dyson
#63. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
Charles M. Blow
#64. When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
Chip Conley
#65. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
A.J. Darkholme
#66. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.
Awdhesh Singh
#67. That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!
Graham Kerr
#68. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Susan Wojcicki
#69. Loyalty - deep, intense, devoted loyalty - to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.
Bill Jensen
#70. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
Kevin O'Leary
#71. The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
Frances Perkins
#72. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13
Shawn Achor
#73. Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but that being out of the question, except for lunatics and leaders, art is a good alternative.
Lucas Samaras
#74. The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.
William S. Burroughs
#75. The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")
Dave Barry
#76. How you handle your own time is, in my view, the single most important aspect of being a role model and leader.
Andrew S. Grove
#77. I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
Richard M. Nixon
#78. A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
Nelson Mandela
#79. President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.
David Mixner
#80. The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
Bob Kane
#81. And you managed to pick up on all that while being hung upside down by a fellow agent, getting yourself beat to shit by your new Team Leader and tormenting your baby brother in the showers?"
"Yes. I would have had more, but you know, I was momentarily distracted by all the soapy six-packs.
Charlie Cochet
#82. I wouldn't want to be a Russian leader. You'd never know when you were being taped.
Richard M. Nixon
#83. I'm a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its leader.
James Patterson
#84. All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.
Kevin Allen
#85. I would like Taeyeon unnie to be the leader, but like Hyoyeon unnie said, I think shes carrying a lot of burdens by being in that position. So, Ill just leave it to the unnies.
Seohyun
#86. If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position
Radhe Maa
#87. I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.
Ndamukong Suh
#88. You know, this country today, it seems to me
it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.
Tom Vilsack
#89. I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.
Richard Branson
#90. I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the other is that of being a strategist. It's a very interesting job I've got.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#91. The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
Xenophon
#92. As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
Dick Morris
#93. PEOPLE WOULD RATHER FOLLOW A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS REAL VERSUS A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT. DON'T TRY TO BE A PERFECT LEADER, JUST WORK ON BEING AN AUTHENTIC ONE.
Brad Lomenick
#94. I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.
Srikumar Rao
#95. (The Francophile and radical John Stuart Mill had noted, not long after the Commune fell, in a letter to an English union leader, "an infirmity of the French mind" - that of "being led away by phrases, and treating abstractions as if they were realities which have a will and exert active power.")
Anonymous
#96. You will leave this course being a
leader and exercising leadership effectively as your natural
self-expression in any situation
and no matter what the
circumstances.
Werner Erhard
#97. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
Benazir Bhutto
#99. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois
#100. To become a leader, you must first become a human being
Confucius
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