Top 98 Quotes About True Leaders
#1. True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
J. Oswald Sanders
#2. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Donald J. Trump
#4. 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
#5. People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#7. To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
Eugene Habecker
#9. True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.
Myles Munroe
#10. Current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.
Marlene Caroselli
#11. Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.
Johan Cruijff
#12. True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
Myles Munroe
#13. Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
Richard Rohr
#14. True leaders are born when you find something to die for
Myles Munroe
#15. All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.
John Maxwell
#16. There's a third element of the raw material that makes a true leader: involvement. True leaders are always in the middle of the action. They do not sit in the background telling everyone else what to do while they live a life of comfort away from the fray.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#17. In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.
Mercedes Lackey
#18. 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
#19. People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.
Rick Warren
#20. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.
John Paul Warren
#21. True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
Bill Byrd
#22. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#23. My point is that true leaders ... understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take.
-Carlist Rieekan
Timothy Zahn
#24. True leaders serve the people. They have no power but what we lend, and what I give in good faith can be taken away." "The wealthy own my world." "Then it is broken.
Penelope Fletcher
#25. The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know ...
Khalil Gibran
#26. True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.
Marlene Caroselli
#27. True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision,
Carmine Gallo
#28. True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.
Farshad Asl
#29. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders
are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
#31. True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.
Farshad Asl
#32. Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.
J. Oswald Sanders
#33. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#34. True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.
Myles Munroe
#35. True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow
Ikechukwu Joseph
#36. If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together.
Diane Hall
#37. The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.
Warren G
#38. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Kevin Allen
#42. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.
Peter Cosgrove
#44. It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.
Dallin H. Oaks
#45. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. God is not interested in your ability. He is
interested in your availability. When you avail
your ability to God, you become a faithful leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. A true leader is someone who can turn people from followers into leaders
Sunday Adelaja
#48. True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.
Gangai Victor
#49. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
#50. We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that.
Cesar Millan
#51. It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
DeForest Soaries
#52. 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
#53. One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.
William A. Rusher
#54. Too many kings can ruin an army
Homer
#55. World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
Daisaku Ikeda
#56. Sometimes you will hear leaders say, "I'm the only person who can hold this nation together." If that's true then that leader has truly failed to build their nation.' That
Tim Marshall
#58. To the believers it is true.
To the wise it is false.
To the leaders it is useful.
Seneca The Younger
#59. The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
Charles Colson
#60. The more familiar something becomes the more true we think it to be. Advertisers, teachers and even cult leaders will repeat their messages over and over to illicit this effect. If we hear a lie often enough, we'll start to believe it.
Thomas Baker
#61. 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
#62. I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.
Billy Graham
#63. There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
Paul Ryan
#64. Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.
John Mackey
#65. For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.
John Ashcroft
#66. The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
Mike Pence
#67. The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
Simon Sinek
#68. 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
#69. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#70. Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
Norman Geisler
#71. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#72. It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
Cornel West
#73. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#74. I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?
H.J. Lawson
#75. You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.
Beck
#76. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.
William Miller
#77. Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.
Judy LaMarsh
#78. 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
#79. Sign of a true leader - shares the knowledge with smile ...
Adil Adam Memon
#80. It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
Bruce Barton
#81. 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
#82. We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.
Glenn Miller
#83. Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.
Rudolf Hess
#84. Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.
Marco Rubio
#85. A true leader produces more leaders.
Zig Ziglar
#86. Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
Tony Blair
#87. In times of war, you often hear leaders - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - saying, 'God is on our side.' But that isn't true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.
Greg Mortenson
#88. Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed ... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
Sheryl Sandberg
#89. Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.
M.F. Moonzajer
#90. The best leaders are gentle. In our culture, we have been misled to believe that the tougher we are, the more respect we will gain, but that is simply not true. What we gain by being tough is fear, and fear is not respect. Respect is gained by giving it away.
Rebecca Eanes
#91. Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
Yuan T. Lee
#92. Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslave. This is a command, not a suggestion, and applies with special force to leaders.
Billy Graham
#93. 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
#94. True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
Bob Beauprez
#95. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
Shawn Achor
#98. We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.
Luis J. Rodriguez
