Natural Leadership Quotes

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

The people turn to a humane ruler as water flows downward.

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

I think, as a quarterback and a leader, it's not necessarily what you do in the limelight. Obviously, you want guys handling themselves in an appropriate manner for the organization and the team, but you need to be who you are. If you're a guy who does that and can be a leader, and naturally that's what you want to do, awesome.

Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing.

I think I always naturally lead on the court by just working.

You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

I feel like I lead a lot by using my voice, it's natural for me, but I also think it's been more by example.

I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.