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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. -- Daisaku Ikeda
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. -- Charles de Gaulle
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. -- Leymah Gbowee
The true leader is always led. -- Carl Jung
A true leader produces more leaders. -- Zig Ziglar
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. -- Harold S. Geneen
People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential. -- Rick Warren
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations -- Haile Selassie
The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price. -- Eugene Habecker
These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory. -- Sheri L. Dew
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
True Leadership always begins with the inner person. -- John C. Maxwell
True leaders are born when you find something to die for -- Myles Munroe
I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church. -- Pope Theodoros II
The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. -- Hugo Chavez
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. -- J. Oswald Sanders
True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all. -- Myles Munroe
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. -- J. Oswald Sanders
A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts. -- Herbert Newton Casson
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. -- Harold S. Geneen
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. -- Sheri L. Dew
True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts. -- Simon Sinek
Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done. -- Reince Priebus
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. -- John C. Maxwell
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. -- Warren Bennis
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership. -- Chinua Achebe
A true leader doesn't just bring troubles; but bring solutions. -- Michael Pfleger
Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army. -- Peter Mohrbacher
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people. -- Vladimir Lenin
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before. -- Leonard Sweet
A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations. -- Alan Loy McGinnis
A true leader doesn't lead it's pack but gets followed by those who respect. -- Noa.C.Kings
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible. -- George Foreman
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated storiesCourageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church. -- Pope Theodoros II
A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away. -- Jon Gordon
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt! -- Israelmore Ayivor
You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart. -- Evan Meekins
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance. -- Martha Beck
A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. -- Spencer W. Kimball
A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders. -- Neale Donald Walsch
All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best. -- John Maxwell
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it. -- Jan Carlzon
To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards! -- Israelmore Ayivor
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. -- J. Oswald Sanders
And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue. -- Bill Byrd
Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential. -- Pastor Adelaja Sunday
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Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world. -- Tony Blair
The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Leadership is preceeded by a vision for all; a true leader will lead the nation into an unforseen desired dimensional transformation that even the dead will clap their hands. -- Wayne Chirisa
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others. -- Israelmore Ayivor
To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant. -- Laura Kreitzer
Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more. -- Michael Josephson
Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue; you pursue others because of the dreams they follow! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations. -- Israelmore Ayivor
A positive attitude creates a passion that wakes a leader up. To the leader, attitude is more powerful than an alarm clock. Positive attitude in true leadership is what makes an alarm clock unnecessary! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour. -- Israelmore Ayivor
A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers. -- Suzy Kassem
This is what you can do to be called a true leader; know the truth, love the truth, speak the truth and repeat the cycle over and over again and again! Let the truth reign! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools. -- Anuj
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before. -- Stephen Neill
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians. -- Nathan Deal
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. -- Sheryl Sandberg
A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader! -- Israelmore Ayivor
When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader! -- Garrison Wynn
As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-way leaders are obvious failures! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. -- Leslie Ludy
Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires. -- Jackson Katz
To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position. -- James Davison Hunter
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again. -- Warren G
It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen's lines. True rulers are true leaders; they maintain a change! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level. -- Anuj
A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher. -- Awdhesh Singh
The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set of standard rules, even if it means being treated as an idiot or a crazy by the fools. And to follow his noble dream to attain his cherished goal, he employs his wisdom tool gained from his own hard core experience in an open school called life. -- Anuj Somany
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. -- Brian Tracy
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. -- Zig Ziglar
Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture. -- John Mackey
We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that. -- Cesar Millan
Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago. -- Yuan T. Lee
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. -- DeForest Soaries
Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.' -- Tarsem Singh
Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do. -- Marco Rubio
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. -- Xenophon
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. -- Myles Munroe
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. -- Warren Bennis
We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas. -- Bob Ainsworth
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. -- Martha Beck
People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human. -- Patrick Lencioni
To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow. -- Martin Heidegger
Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone. -- Laurie Beth Jones
Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others. -- Ken Blanchard
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! -- Charles Colson
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. -- Rumi
I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business. -- Lee Iacocca
The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do. -- Simon Sinek

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