Skip to main content

A Leader Is Quotes

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
- John Adair

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann

A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
- Joel A Barker

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
- Warren G Bennis

Every year
A dreamer is born
Every year
A leader is formed
Every year
There will be someone
Who speaks 4 the voiceless
Fight 4 those in need
Each year
A messenger will
achieve 11/17/2011
- O Crisstopher

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max De Pree

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
- Peter Drucker

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
- Xenophon

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
- John Erskine

Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.
- James Patterson

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
- Frank Herbert

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
- Sam Houston

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Andre Malraux

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C Maxwell

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
- Patrick Ness

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
- Manny Pacquiao

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
- Colin Powell

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
- Robert Reich

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
- Beth Revis

Power isn't control at all power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
- Beth Revis

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.
- Trenton Lee Stewart

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- John Updike

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
- Sanford I Weill

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
- Orrin Woodward

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Fat Person Quotes

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. - Terry Pratchett I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. - Jennifer Egan I feel self-conscious calling my cat fat in front of a fat person, considering I'm skinny and inconsiderate. - Jarod Kintz I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for. - Kelly Osbourne Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! - Daniel Pinkwater

Bass Player Quotes

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. - Bryan Adams In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. - Ken Burns Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. - Geezer Butler Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. - Stanley Clarke There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same t...