Quotes about Followership
We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.
— Rob Bell
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
— John Maxwell
People who think they're leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.
— John Maxwell
One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
— 2 Samuel 20:11
He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
— John Maxwell
To lead people, you must follow behind.
— Lao Tzu
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
— AW Tozer
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
— Bill Hybels
Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.
— Leonard Sweet
The Christian life is not about leadership but "followership," not about becoming more and more but less and less.
— Eugene Peterson