Quotes About Followership

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone to follow.

In John 6 we read that when great multitudes went after Him, He told them three times that unless they were willing to pay the price, they could not be His followers.

A good leader makes a good follower.

If people are following, you're leading. Otherwise you aren't." – Bob Lewis

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

If there is nothing else to learn from history, it's that from humans to animals, from the most primitive to the most civilized, most individuals want to be led. Take out the leader, and the rest of the pack panics.

After Peter came to recognize his own inadequacy, his utter inability to fulfill his destiny apart from obedience to his only true responsibility, he became a rock-solid leader. As his story unfolds in the book of acts, we can clearly see that when Peter kept his eyes on Jesus and followed Him, others followed to. And they followed by the thousands. Needed today: more Peters.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and to find no one there.

I cannot know truth, so I follow one who does.

all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.

One who wishes to lead the people must learn the art of following them.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don't want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

With few exceptions, the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.

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.

Strength and courage are basic virtues for both followed and follower.