Lead People Quotes

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!

Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!

Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration.

If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our values. From our values we pick up our choices and our choices bring out our character. Our characters make us to lead!

You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.

Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliation. Once you can figure out your talents and optimize them very well, at the right place and at the right time, you are a leader.

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!

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.

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.

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.

To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!

Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!

You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence

The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

To know the purpose of a product, you must pay attention to what the manufacturer said about it. What God said about you is that you must have dominion over all other creation. Just pay attention and take the lead!

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.

The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!

Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds.

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people’s assignments instead of pursing yours!