Guidance Quotes

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

A leader is someone who is always a step ahead of his people … but never more than one step … always close enough in order to understand his people and for his people to understand and feel him.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.