Leader

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James C. Humes

The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Stephen R. Covey

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.
Anais Nin

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
John Erksine

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

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader’s job is to help people have vision of their potential.
John Porter

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
Robert Townsend

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
Russell H. Ewing

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

It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don’t worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
David Joseph Schwartz

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow T. Wilson

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.
Rosalynn Carter

The glue that holds all relationships together – including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Brian Tracy

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. Maxwell

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
Elbert Hubbard

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

The leader must know, most know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.
Clarence B. Randall

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.
Ashleigh Brilliant

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand E. Marcos

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers… Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
Gary Wills

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David R. Gergen

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Joe Batten

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.
General George S. Patton