What Makes A Leader Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.

Beth Revis

#3. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

Harriet Harman

#4. What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Frank Herbert

#5. The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.

Warren G. Bennis

#6. A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.

"That's what makes a good leader.

Patience Johnson

#7. And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.

Patrick Lencioni

#8. It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.

Justin Peters

#9. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Travis Bradberry

#10. You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

William J. Clinton

#11. Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Lippmann

#12. 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

#13. Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader.

Malti Bhojwani

#14. Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

Gary Rohrmayer

#16. The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Simon Sinek

#17. By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

William J. Clinton

#18. It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.

John C. Maxwell

#19. The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

Leonard Sweet

#20. Choosing makes you the leader of your life!

Karen James

#21. A good leader makes a good follower.

Wilfred Bion

#22. Great leaders don't try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that's what makes them great.

Simon Sinek

#23. I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

Leroy Chiao

#24. Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader.

Mark W. Boyer

#25. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

Mary Parker Follett

#26. 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.

#27. The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her.

Tim Stevens

#28. I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.

Michael Weatherly

#29. Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

Joe Simpson

#30. Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

John C. Maxwell

#31. The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

Emma Thompson

#32. Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Richard Marcinko

#33. "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

Jack Welch

#34. Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

Robert Griffin III

#35. By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

George Orwell

#36. When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON

Robert A. Caro

#37. You want to be a passionate leader who makes decisions that are based on belief and principle over those that are based on feeling.

Jon Gordon

#38. Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

John Cornyn

#39. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

Ron Kaufman

#40. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Seth Godin

#42. Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

John C. Maxwell

#43. So, when it comes to effective leadership, it's not about you and what makes you comfortable or helps you get ahead. It's about other people. It's about serving God by serving others. That's the mind-set of the mentor leader.

Tony Dungy

#44. When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

Simon Sinek

#45. The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

Buzz Aldrin

#46. Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

Rick Warren

#47. A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Tony Dungy

#48. The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it's the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference.

Ken Jennings

#49. what makes you a leader is the will to lead, not the knowledge how to do it best. You just have to be bright enough to listen to those who do know, and make the decisions that they don't want to be responsible for. That's how a team works.

Adrienne Lecter

#50. Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Peter Drucker

#51. I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

Bruce Forsyth

#52. It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

K'naan

#53. Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Scott Weiss

#54. Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes they hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.

Mychal Denzel Smith

#55. A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#56. The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?

Robert K. Greenleaf

#57. Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Andy Hargreaves

#58. There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity ... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

Marcus Buckingham

#59. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Warren Bennis