Leading Others Quotes

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.

The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.

Leadership is leading by example.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Leadership belongs to all of us. I'm a big believer in John Maxwell, a leadership speaker and author, who talks about the 360-degree leader. Before leading others, you have to learn to lead yourself. Wherever you work in an organization you have to learn to lead up, lead down, and lead side to side. Leadership belongs to all of us. You have to see yourself, and believe in yourself in the way that we are talking about here to give to those that you lead.

I'm not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

If you are leading others and you're lonely, then you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading!