Quotes on Leader

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

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

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

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.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.