Quotes About Guidance

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.

Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

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.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.