Leading On Quotes by Ken Kesey, George S. Patton, Erik Weihenmayer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many others.
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
When I’m following someone, I’m listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I’m leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.
Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading…Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.
To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Do not follow where the path may lead.
I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit’s leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don’t want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
