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Quotes About Guidance

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.
~ Tony Dungy
Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!
~ Andy Stanley
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
~ John P. Kotter
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
~ Myles Munroe
The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.
~ Régis Debray
It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.
~ Calvin Miller
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.
~ Max De Pree
You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
~ Andy Stanley
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
~ Edgar Schein
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.
~ Peter Cosgrove
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
~ Warren G. Bennis
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
~ William Hazlitt
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
~ Confucius
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
~ Shiv Khera
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
~ Diogenes
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
~ Bill Hybels
A leader's most powerful ally is his or her own example.
~ John Wooden
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
~ Nelson Mandela
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.
~ Myles Munroe