Quotes about Leading By Example

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Another key finding is that in non-distressed families, the spouses do not reciprocate each others' negative behavior—only positive behavior. The same is true for parents and kids. You don't have to reciprocate your child's negative words and actions by doing likewise yourself. By not reacting, but leading, you will raise the positives in your home. You build an environment of grace.[72]

What people look for in their leaders is authenticity. You say, 'I'm not going to ask you to do anything that I'm not going to do myself.'

The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them, there's a huge element of leading something. It's the atmosphere and dynamic you're creating on set.

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Be the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.

Lead how you like to be led.

If a leader shows strong discipline, others will see it and cooperate with the expectations placed on them. At this point, leadership by example is crucial.

We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.

True leaders are those who can offer appropriate advice based on their own rich experience, not people who just give orders and are all words and no substance. Leaders are first people of action who lead by personal example. They are not people who merely occupy some status or position. Leaders are people of hard work, not people of tactics and maneuvering. Above all, they are not authoritarians.

Never be a hypocrite in language or action. Core values are those your children will come to see as the true morality. And with them, and your guidance, your children will respect you, and you will respect yourself.

Some lead by example, like Rand Fishkin of Moz (formerly SEOmoz), who says his goal is to create a hundred new millionaires — then issued additional stock grants for every Moz employee as a part of the Series B funding, directly out of his personal holdings, to ensure that a financing round wouldn't be dilutive.

I'm proud to say that, leading by example, I've tried from day one to help recalibrate views of women in the world of football.

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

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

To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.

The most important personal-growth phrase you will ever hear a good leader say to you is "follow me.

God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

What people need is not a motto to say, but a model to see. THE

A leader cannot demand of others what he does not demand of himself.