Quotes About Leading Yourself

#1. 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

#2. Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

Reggie Watts

#3. When it comes to the arc of your life, leadership is a sacred responsibility.

Paul Gibbons

#4. You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."
"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you.

Booth Tarkington

#5. To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

Josh Holloway

#6. Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.

Susanne Bier

#7. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

#8. It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet.

Michelle Tea

#9. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Mark Gonzales

#10. You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

LaMar Boschman

#11. Leadership is all about leading your life with a cause greater than yourself and continuously doing self-development.

Deepak Burfiwala

#12. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

Kellie Elmore

#13. Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

Christopher Galvin

#14. If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

Robin Sharma

#15. Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve ...

Stephen Fry

#16. Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Suanne Laqueur

#17. The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.

Mervyn Davies

#18. When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.

Ralph Marston

#19. If you don't know which road to take in life: do what's loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That's the only path leading to light. If it's loving, it builds up, if not, it will only tear down.

Sereno Sky

#20. 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

#21. Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today's work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#23. 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

#24. In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules. This is the role and power of Core Values. If discovered and used effectively, these values guide all the relationship decisions and systems in the company.

Verne Harnish

#25. Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

Leslie Ludy

#26. Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

John C. Maxwell

#27. There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.

Ryan Reynolds

#28. So much emotion wrapped up in weakness, leading you to attempt the impossible, lying to yourself, time and time again. Hope, I think you call it.

John Gwynne

#29. If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.

Fenley Douglas

#30. 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

#31. Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

Grenville Kleiser

#32. Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

Robbie Robertson

#33. 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

#34. When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.

Ray Dalio

#35. You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

Pat Conroy