Vince Lombardi Quotes

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

It isn't worth trying to lead if your people won't follow.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

When you have someone that manages, coaches you, and you follow, and you believe, and you do everything that you can because you believe in that idea in your leader, that stays forever. That is the impact Jose Mourinho had on me.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

People look for their leadership to lead.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.