Followers famous quotes
05-15-2025
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The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
-- Annie Besant -
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
-- Aristotle -
I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
-- ASAP Rocky -
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
-- Billy Graham -
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
-- Bliss Carman -
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.
-- Bob Jones III -
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.
-- Camille Paglia -
Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love
-- Chance the Rapper -
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
-- Charles de Lint -
Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to acquire...or they have never been taught that total commitment is Christ's demand for all His followers.
-- Chip Ingram -
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
-- Craig Groeschel -
I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
-- Dallin H. Oaks -
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
-- Daniel Dennett -
Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
-- Dave Hunt -
It's important to think of every customer as an online celebrity with followers, friends, & above all influence
-- Dave Kerpen -
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
-- David Platt -
She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.
-- Dennis Hastert -
The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
-- Derek Sivers -
It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.
-- Derek Sivers -
Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.
-- Dot Jones -
Worried bout ya followers? You need to get ya dollars up.
-- Drake -
That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.
-- E. P. Sanders -
But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
-- Earl Browder -
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
-- Elaine Pagels -
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
-- Emilio Estevez -
I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.
-- Eric Ladin -
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
-- Francis Chan -
Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
-- Francis Chan -
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.
-- Franklin Graham -
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
-- Franz von Papen -
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
-- Gail Sheehy -
There is nothing like success to breed followers.
-- Geoffrey Ballard -
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers
-- George Bernard Shaw -
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
-- George Orwell -
The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
-- Greg Laurie -
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
The love shown by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ, to do all in our power to see to it that the message of salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ our Savior was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.
-- Haile Selassie -
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
-- Henry Adams -
To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,
-- Herb Kelleher -
Be a follower of JESUS CHRIST--I am not seeking followers of my own. Don't be a follower of a MAN--but of CHRIST!
-- Herbert W. Armstrong -
I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
-- Irvin Kershner -
Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
-- J. C. Ryle -
I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.
-- J.A. Redmerski -
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
-- James MacGregor Burns -
I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.
-- Jennifer Ehle -
Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.
-- Jim Rohn -
If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
-- John C. Maxwell -
A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
-- John C. Maxwell -
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
-- John Keegan -
Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
-- Josh McDowell -
The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.
-- Julian Baggini -
What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.
-- Kristen Bell -
I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.
-- Kumar Sangakkara -
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
-- Lance Secretan -
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
-- Larry Page -
Want more Twitter followers? Take care of the ones you have FIRST!
-- Laura Fitton -
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
-- Leonard Sweet -
Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?
-- Lottie Moon -
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.
-- Malaclypse the Younger -
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers.
-- Marsha Collier -
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
-- Martin Parr -
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
-- Marvin Harris -
Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
-- Mary Douglas -
He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.
-- Mary E. Pearson -
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.
-- Matthew Henry -
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
-- Max De Pree -
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.
-- Max De Pree -
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
-- Meek Mill -
..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
-- Michelle Grattan -
I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.
-- Milton Resnick -
The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
-- Mos Def -
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
-- Nathaniel Branden -
I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
-- Nido R Qubein -
The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
-- Oleg Cassini
