74 Quotes About Leading

Instead of letting obstacles get you down, use these leading quotes to become an inspiring leader right now. Those who lead are inspired, and those who inspire are led. When we want to make positive change, we need to start by looking within. Our own actions can inspire us to overcome challenges and achieve our goals Read more

But the true heroes are those who lead by example. They manage change through their actions, not just words or speeches. We’ve included some of the best leadership quotes ever written to inspire your own leadership skills today.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge...
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No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. Michael Bassey Johnson
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and...
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We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others. Israelmore Ayivor
Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you...
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Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn. A.J. Darkholme
The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters...
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The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions. Abhijit Naskar
An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your...
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An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life Sunday Adelaja
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34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of touching and caressing and kissing that occurs in the early days tends to increase as they become more familiar and at ease with one another. Likewise, the amount of contact necessary to excite one another increases day by day, leading in many cases to an ultimate act of sin and its inevitable consequence. This progression must be consciously resisted by Christian young people who want to serve God and live by His standards. They can resist this trend by placing deliberate controls on the physical aspect of their relationship, right from the first date. James C. Dobson
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep...
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A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime. Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell
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Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team. Janna Cachola
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Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them. Abhijit Naskar
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Serving is the best kind of Leading. Todd Stocker
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We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained. Clifford Cohen
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It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others. Dan Groat
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When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. Richie Norton
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Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position. Michele Jennae
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The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God Sunday Adelaja
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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid, this thirsty, this alone". "I haven't been a good leader, but--people are counting on me to take them to safety. I don't know if I'm twelve or twenty or if I'm twenty and I don't think age matters anymore------- There is a way out. I will find a way out. Scott Sigler
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Journey leading to just an end is better lost on the way. Who knows you would explore the real destination. Vikrmn
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May God guide and lead us to a glorious future. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind. Amit Kalantri
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We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and environmental problems. Steven Magee
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The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams. A.J. Darkholme
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Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good. A.J. Darkholme
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If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home. Shannon L. Alder
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Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading. Amit Kalantri
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Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around. Criss Jami
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Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer's arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary. A.J. Darkholme
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Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart. Lolly Daskal
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We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential. A.J. Darkholme
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No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible. A.J. Darkholme
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A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future. A.J. Darkholme
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If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs. A.J. Darkholme
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One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes. Israelmore Ayivor
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You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it. Todd Stocker
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Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn! Israelmore Ayivor
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At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds Unknown
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Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. Israelmore Ayivor
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Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit. Israelmore Ayivor
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A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations. Israelmore Ayivor
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It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it. Israelmore Ayivor
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Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make some good new friends, Kindly enough with cyclists who spin with no end. Ana Claudia Antunes
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Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product. Janna Cachola
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The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders! Israelmore Ayivor
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The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks. Israelmore Ayivor
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Take a step that has a purpose of leading you to where you have planned to go. When the destination is right and the direction is wrong, it is impossible to get there. Make a step. Israelmore Ayivor
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Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an "assumed" category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows. Israelmore Ayivor
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You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well. Israelmore Ayivor
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Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds. Israelmore Ayivor
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As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures! Israelmore Ayivor
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If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of. Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. Israelmore Ayivor
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God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps. Jim George
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Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers. A.J. Darkholme
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The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers. Steven Magee
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The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. Pawan Mishra
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Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end. A.J. Darkholme
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If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less. A.J. Darkholme
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The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Having been privileged to consult and speak in parliaments and to the governments of some of the leading countries in the world, it would be a waste if I don’t contribute my quota and do my best to help rescue my continent from that backwardness and darkness that Africa is largely agonizing in at present. Sunday Adelaja
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Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable. Shannon L. Alder
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Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening. A.J. Darkholme
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Josiah became King of Judah at the age of eight. Joan of Arc led the French Army at nineteen. King Tut led all of Egypt at age nine. Age isn't everything you think it is. Your heart and your spirit speak more than a simple candle count on your birthday cake. ~Tony (Exposing ELE) Rebecca Gober
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If you believe the world will be a better place because you have both the desire and the means to take charge, that's the time for you to jump in. It doesn't matter if you rise up to take the lead only once or twice in your entire working life or if you do it daily. There are so many moments when you can make a difference--by enriching an outcome, saving a great idea, defending the beleaguered or downtrodden, and not least, expressing your own gifts and wisdom. Charlotte Beers
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Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear. Noel DeJesus
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There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves Lolly Daskal
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Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led. Steve Maraboli
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I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide. Henrietta C. Mears
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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women. Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin