Quotes about Followers

Leaders who attract followers... Need to be needed leaders who develop leaders... Want to be succeeded.

To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.

Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.

When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk." If you can't influence others, they won't follow you.

Social influence doesn't become leadership influence until the people following change their behavior and take action as a result of the interaction with the influencer.

You will be able to reach your potential and help your organization reach its loftiest goals only if you begin developing leaders instead of merely attracting followers. Leaders who develop leaders experience an incredible multiplication effect in their organizations that can be achieved in no other way.

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something. If you are passionate about something, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

The mark of Christian discipleship is love—love of the kind that Jesus exercised toward his followers, love visible enough that men will recognize it as belonging to those people who follow Jesus.