Top 100 Quotes About Followers
#1. Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
William Shakespeare
#2. Heroic leaders often made mistakes ... mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. (Introduction to Dune Messiah)
Brian Herbert
#3. For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts....
David T. Hardy
#4. Finally, it's about connecting those followers with one another, magnifying the power of your idea and ensuring that it's talked about even when you're not in the room. That's when you've built a movement.
Dorie Clark
#5. There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers ... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.
Michelle Phan
#6. It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts ... The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.
Billy Graham
#7. religion does not offer enlightenment; it offers absolute answers and a simplistic guide to life that reassures followers of relief in a spiritual world to come.
Arthur F. Garcia Jr.
#8. A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge
T.F. Hodge
#9. He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.
Megan McKenna
#12. 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
#13. Therefore, we propose a rediscovery of Christology that includes a preoccupation with the example and teaching of Jesus for the purposes of emulation by his followers.
Michael Frost
#14. There is no master without a servant and there is no country without citizens. There can't be leaders without followers or subjects. There is no harvest without sowing.
David Ssembajjo
#15. David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.
Lord George Gordon
#16. There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
Dallas Willard
#17. The cross is the suffering the Christian endures as a consequence of his following Christ in perfect obedience. Christ chose the cross by choosing the path that led to it; and it is so with His followers. In the way of obedience stands the cross, and we take the cross when we enter that way.
A.W. Tozer
#18. What is it about God's Word that creates an hunger to hear more? And not just to hear the Word but to long for it, study it, memorize it, and follow it? What causes followers of Christ around the world literally to risk their lives in order to know it?
David Platt
#19. Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.
Garfield Sobers
#20. That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality.
Jennifer Bosworth
#21. The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.
Ralph Nader
#22. The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.
Novalis
#23. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#24. The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.
Lee Strobel
#25. Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
Wayne Rooney
#26. Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
John C. Maxwell
#27. A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
John C. Maxwell
#28. The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.
Peter Shaffer
#29. My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.
Michelle Phan
#30. Although the gospels of the New Testament
like those discovered at Nag Hammadi
are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
Elaine Pagels
#31. When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
Craig Groeschel
#32. Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
Gail Sheehy
#33. The gospels are, and were written to be, fresh tellings of the story of Jesus designed to be the charter of the community of Jesus's first followers and those who, through their witness, then and subsequently, have joined in and have learned to hear, see, and know Jesus in word and sacrament.
N. T. Wright
#34. The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander Spooner
#35. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
Richard Paul Evans
#37. I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'
Henry Rollins
#38. I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.
Rachel Nichols
#39. 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
#40. Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
Elaine Pagels
#41. The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ.
Jonathan Edwards
#43. The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to their enemies - the horizons of shalom, the horizons of true humanity living in dependence on God.
Andy Crouch
#44. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
John C. Maxwell
#45. If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.
Bill Maher
#46. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck
#47. Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.
Robert E. Howard
#48. God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress.
Karen Kingsbury
#49. We were in darkness when we were outside of the knowledge of Jesus and when we were not followers of Him. Yet now that we have this knowledge of Jesus Christ and this relationship with Him, we have become light and we are to live as light.
Todd Coburn
#50. Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.
Tim Rice
#51. A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
John C. Maxwell
#52. Screw you and your 38,000 twitter followers!
CM Punk
#53. God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
F.F. Bruce
#54. If our lives do not reflect the fruit of following Jesus, then we are foolish to think that we are actually followers of Jesus in the first place.
David Platt
#55. To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.
Miguel Ruiz
#56. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
George Soros
#57. Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#58. I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.
Judy LaMarsh
#59. I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.
Jared Leto
#60. Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
C.S. Lewis
#61. I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#62. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.
Sonya Huber
#63. The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It's to create more leaders.
Ralph Nader
#64. We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
John Ortberg
#65. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.
Simon Mainwaring
#66. The more passionate and argumentative I get the more followers and friends I make online.
Tasha Turner
#67. Followers of today are the leaders of tomorrow, remember there is a costly price for every step towards the leadership destination.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.
Reza Aslan
#69. Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.
Kim Coles
#70. A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
Tony Robbins
#72. It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
Victoria Osteen
#73. Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#74. Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
Greg Laurie
#75. 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
#76. Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.
Nicholson Baker
#77. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
John Milton
#78. To make this sign, the first and little fingers are upraised and the other fingers folded in towards the palm. This was a secret sign used for recognition purposes by followers of the medieval witch cult who were traditionally worshippers of the pagan Horned God.
Paul Rhys Mountfort
#79. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Ben Bradlee
#80. The unredeemed Spirits and their followers, their works, and all their doings---be their unrelenting enemy and try throughout your life to command them and never to serve them.
Abraham Von Worms
#81. The successful leader must be willing
to assume responsibility for the mistakes
and the shortcomings of his followers.
Napoleon Hill
#82. Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
Seth Godin
#83. You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one.
Faydra D. Fields
#85. Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?
Lottie Moon
#86. Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.
Roma Downey
#88. The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple.
Thomas Oord
#89. As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.
Tahir Shah
#90. Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.
Martyn
#91. Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.
Thomas Young
#92. Your character determines how many followers you will have.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
Alcee Hastings
#94. I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.
Timothy Leary
#95. My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
Hannah Ware
#96. Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God.
Monica Johnson
#97. I really, really like Suzana Delgado, who is the most beautiful girl in the eighth grade and probably the world. She has like 183 million Instagram followers.
Dave Barry
#98. Muhammad's example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly,
Reza Aslan
#99. There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone.
Richard Rohr
#100. Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
Francis Chan
