Top 100 To Be A Leader Quotes
#1. To be a leader you have to learn to shout! But after you've learned to shout, you have to learn not to!
Terry Pratchett
#2. Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.
John Wooden
#3. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.
Jami Davenport
#4. It was easier to be a leader when you weren't surrounded by total idiots.
Robert J. Crane
#5. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#6. Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.
Genndy Tartakovsky
#7. Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
Tim Holden
#8. If you want to be a leader, go lead
Seth Godin
#9. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#10. It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
Lee Scott
#11. To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#12. You don't need a title to be a leader, and having a title doesn't make you one.
Anthony T. Eaton
#13. America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#14. A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
#15. As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
Talib Kweli
#16. If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#17. And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?
Jamie Dimon
#18. My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
Bubba Watson
#19. To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.
Harriet Rubin
#20. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.
John Kasich
#22. I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.
Kenneth Chenault
#23. If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
Narendra Modi
#24. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
#25. To be a leader, you must first be a team player, and you must care for the men you lead.
Dick Couch
#26. The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
Alan Greenspan
#27. 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
#28. If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.
David A. Noebel
#29. If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon
#30. Just because your friend does it, doesn't mean you have to. Be a leader, not a follower.
Diana Lopez
#31. I know for sure,to be a leader i have to be a reader
Faiz Triumph
#32. 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
#33. You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Henry Ford
#34. If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.
Mike Scioscia
#35. It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.
Hugh Mackay
#36. A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.
Henry Ford
#38. I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.
Celine
#41. I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.
Baba Amte
#42. In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#43. I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
Matt Holliday
#44. To me it's very important to be a leader not a follower. Sometimes it takes balls and heart to do that. Sometimes it's not that east to say.
Shane Bunting
#45. To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically
Albert Mohler
#46. The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
Leon Panetta
#47. If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
Benjamin Disraeli
#48. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
Russell Simmons
#49. My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
Lionel Suggs
#50. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,
J.R.D. Tata
#51. The most important contribution you can make to your company is to be a leader, accept responsibility for results, and dare to go forward.
Brian Tracy
#52. And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
Joan Bauer
#53. Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
Aminu Kano
#54. 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
#55. Look at your reflection," he said, gently cupping my chin in his palm. "I have scanned thousands of faces in my time, Olivia. You were meant to be a leader. It's etched in every line of your face ...
Evette Davis
#56. To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Havelock Ellis
#57. To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Joe Namath
#58. If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
R. Kelly
#59. 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
#60. President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.
Ted Cruz
#61. To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.
John C. Maxwell
#62. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
John C. Maxwell
#63. To be a leader you have to jump into the ocean of uncertainty and lead the followers toward the known or unknown destination.
Debasish Mridha
#65. You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
Branford Marsalis
#66. You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.
Chris Paul
#67. To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.
J. Oswald Sanders
#68. I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.
Susana Martinez
#69. Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
Carlos Ghosn
#70. I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#71. The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.
Shai Agassi
#72. To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
Max De Pree
#73. The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants
Rick Warren
#74. To be a leader means to be able to move masses
Adolf Hitler
#76. Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
Bill Vaughan
#77. I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch
#78. If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
Barbara Boxer
#79. This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
Ronnie Milsap
#80. If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.
Desmond Tutu
#81. My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
Hillary Clinton
#82. Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.
Bill Dedman
#83. Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
Douglas Conant
#84. India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
Nina Fedoroff
#85. 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
#87. To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times
Peter Koestenbaum
#88. Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
Shaquille O'Neal
#89. Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.
Tina Fey
#90. We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader.
Gordon Brown
#91. I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.
Gerald R. Ford
#92. not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word - that
Susan Cain
#93. Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide
Marcelle Hinkson
#94. Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.
Peter Koestenbaum
#95. If a good man can't sleep after hurting people,
then he should learn much more to be a leader.
Toba Beta
#96. If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
Vladimir Putin
#97. You're a hero here.'
'I don't want to be a hero.'
'What do you want?'
'I want to be a leader.
Julianna Baggott
#98. You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.
Jack Welch
#99. I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.
Andrew Luck
#100. Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.
Alveda King
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