Leader Quotes

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Genuine, Consensus, Searcher

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Work, Best, Done

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
Dalai Lama

Humanity, Religious, King

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama

King, Rule, Modern

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
Dalai Lama

Spiritual, Pure

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
Bob Marley

Person, Words, Through

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

Respect, Down, Authority

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Between, Innovation, Follower

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Society, Try, Tell

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

Work, Best, Done

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Others, Become, Learn

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

Good, Great, Ourselves

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

Knows, Goes, Shows

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Idea

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Between, Boss, Difference

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mind, Together, Team

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

Control, Win, Between

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack Obama

Black, Free, Choice

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

War, Fear, Nothing

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus

Master, Millions, Slaves

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson Mandela

Become, Ordinary, Messiah

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman

Boss, Republican, Party

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
Barack Obama

Remember, Union, Republican

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

Good, Blame, Less

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand

Lets, Wreck, Heap

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

Leadership, Alone, Loneliness

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

Great, Himself, Wants

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Mitt Romney

Politics, Envy, Country

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
Colin Powell

Attitude, Winning, Whether

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