“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”
More from John Maxwell on Leadership
“How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.”
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
“Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
“Leadership is influence.”
“The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”
“As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.”
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
Others on Leadership
Niccolò Machiavelli
10 quotes“A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.”
Simon Sinek
9 quotes“Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordin...”
Henry Kissinger
5 quotes“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”
Lao Tzu
5 quotes“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
Eisenhower
5 quotes“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
Harry Truman
5 quotes“Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.”
Colin Powell
4 quotes“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Peter F. Drucker
4 quotes“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Charles de Gaulle
4 quotes“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.”
George Patton
3 quotes“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads th...”
Woodrow Wilson
3 quotes“We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misu...”
Nelson Mandela
3 quotes“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”