Quotes for How to be a leader?

Why someone wants to be a Leader? there are many reason, such as,

He want power, he want to help other, he want to lead other, there something that they want, he want money in easy way, many other reason, including the good and wrong motive.

What benefit that the leader will get. Power and wealth if you are selfish leader, respect and honor if you are good leader. Bad or good are both beneficial that’s why many people want to be a leader even they have no capacity to be a leader.

What is a leader; of course we know what is leader, someone that leads a group, someone who have a group under his command, like the President of the country.

If we are looking for a leader or we want to be a Leader, here is some quote from the great men and leader of the world that we can apply to look for a leader or on ourselves as a leader.

• 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
• Leader should be transparent.
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis
• A leader is a dealer in hope. —Napoleon Bonaparte
• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. —John Maxwell
• Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. —Peter Drucker
• A kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. —Brian Tracy
• A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. —Polybius
• A great leader’s courage to fulfil his vision comes from passion, not position. —John Maxwell
• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. —Rosalynn Carter
• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. —Jim Rohn
• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. —Sam Walton
• A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. —Douglas MacArthur
• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. —Ovid
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower
• The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. —Eric Hoffer
• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. —Brian Tracy
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. —Stephen Covey
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. —General Colin Powell
• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. —John Zenger
• Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. —Ross Perot
• Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. —Vince Lombardi
• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —John C. Maxwell
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —John F. Kennedy
• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. —Jesse Jackson
• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. —Woodrow Wilson
• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —Norman Schwarzkopf
• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. —Colin Powell
• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. —Erskine Bowles
• Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. —Bill Bradley

In the group the leader and follower should help each other; the group will fall if there is a division. Respect the leader bad or good the bible say those who fighting the leader is fighting God, if he do wrong he will pay it to God.