Lead People Quotes

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!

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Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

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The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

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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.

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Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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

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Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

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

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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!

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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.

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Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

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

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Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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

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Leaders don’t settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!

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

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Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

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

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

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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!

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

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

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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!

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

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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!

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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!

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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You can’t perform well in what you don’t love to do well. You can lead in what you can’t perform well. To lead well, be sure where you are, is where you supposed to be!

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.

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