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Quotes About Followers

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.
~ Tony Levin
People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People accepted the new leaders because people wanted leaders and the former were dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There is no evidence that any of the leaders in developing and adopting sustaining technologies developed a discernible competitive advantage over the followers
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Anyone can start a religion. They just need the need of others.
~ Colson Whitehead
There are events, strange happenings, that strike The mind as emblematic. They are like Lost similes adrift without a string. Attached to nothing. Thus that northern king, Whose desperate escape from prison was Brought off successfully only because Some forty of his followers that night Impersonated him and aped his flight -
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We need to realize that God is an intensely social Being. He is constantly working to bring the lost and the least to feast at his table. He is perpetually connecting his followers with those who need to experience his love.
~ Larry Shallenberger
These passages often reflect the use of "Father" in GMatthew to represent "God's" relationship to Jesus' followers as well. So, e.g., believers are instructed to pray invoking "Our Father in heaven" (Matt 6:9), and they are to live in the knowledge that "your Father" sees all and will act accordingly (Matt 6:1-18).
~ Larry W. Hurtado
We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.
~ Lars Iyer
Good followers do not become good leaders.
~ Laurence J. Peter
animals don't follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability. Only humans have leaders who can lie and get away with it. Around the world, most of the pack leaders we follow today are not stable. Their followers may not know it, but Mother Nature is far too honest to be fooled by angry, frustrated, jealous, competitive, stubborn, or other negative energy—even if it is masked by a politician's smile. That
~ Cesar Millan
No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his followers.
~ Author Unknown
Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.
~ Author Unknown
Another thing about these words of the Great Commission to both preach the gospel and make disciples: they are directed to every follower of Jesus. These words were not merely directed to the original disciples. Nor are they meant only for what we might call "professionals"—evangelists, pastors, missionaries, etc. They are for every follower of Jesus. Every man and every woman who believes in Him is called and commanded to go and proclaim His message.
~ Greg Laurie
Jesus had enough vision to think small. Focusing did not limit his influence — it expanded it. When Jesus ascended to the Father, he knew that there were at least eleven who could minister under the authority of his name, an elevenfold multiplication of his ministry. Robert Coleman captures the heart of Jesus' methodology when he writes, "[Jesus'] concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes but with men the multitudes would follow.
~ Greg Ogden
When followers of Jesus aren't careful to clearly distinguish the Kingdom from their own nation, we easily end up Christianizing aspects of our national culture we ought to be revolting against.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn't necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Las discordias de políticos profesionales siempre tienen consecuencias. En el camino de Morena serán más importantes los pleitos de sus políticos profesionales, escondidos hoy bajo la sombra de la unidad y la adhesión a su líder, que los desacuerdos de los seguidores.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.
~ James Lee Burke
Why would you want to follow someone if you suspected that they were lying or trying to trick you? Honesty is the basis of trust and you have to believe that what the leader speaks or knows is true." Of
~ James M. Kouzes
When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
~ Frans van Houten
I had maybe 200 followers when I started. A bunch of radio stations were like, 'Uhhhhhh, my daughter has more followers than her'.
~ Daya
Marital status is not going to affect one's prospects or fan following, for ultimately, talent will prevail. Take Aamir Khan or Shah Rukh Khan, for instance. Actors are mere dream sellers. They cannot become everyone's lover.
~ R. Madhavan
There's always someone following your next step.
~ Cindy Margolis