John C. Maxwell Quotes

Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

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.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

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

Men do not obey him by virtue of tradition or statute, but because they believe in him.

Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

There are leaders, and there are those who lead.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

People follow courage, not titles.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

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

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

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

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.