T. E. Lawrence Quotes

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal. We don't really base our love off of finances or who's superior by financial status. We're all equal. When I'm with them, I'm letting them shine 'cause it's just like how it used to be. They still there. I'm just chilling out front.

There's so much more to being a 'top guy' than what you see on screen that I really learned.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me."

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.