Quotes About Guidance

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Leadership is like parenting.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.