Quotes on True Leader

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

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.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

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.

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

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...

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.