Lead In Quotes

• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Differences, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Leadership

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Team

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

  Albert Einstein

  Leadership, Born Leaders, Able

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Gratitude, Regret, Moving

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mother, Air, Sea

  "Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

  LeCrae

  Roles, Fiction, Stories

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• The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Children, Real, Men

  "Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Y tu mamá también” searches for hope in “Children of Men”". Interview with Mark Rahner, www.seattletimes.com. December 22, 2006.

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• I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

  Eliza Coupe

  America, Chinese, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

  John Corbett

  Thinking, Auditions, Six

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• You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

  Neve Campbell

  Character, Acting, Mold

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• A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

  Sean Durkin

  Actors, Film, Bigs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

  Robert Palmer

  Kings, Fighting, Politics

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

  Donna Shalala

  People, Community, Difficult Times

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• Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

  Anthony Mackie

  Blow, Two, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

  John Bercow

  Taken, Thinking, Records

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• I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

  Jamie Bell

  Thinking, People, Able

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• I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

  Corbin Bleu

  Class, Two, Dance Class

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• It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

  Faith Ford

  Energy, Ifs

  "TV Stars Support The Pacifier". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 4, 2005.

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