Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Dan Hampton

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Dan Jenkins

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Cynthia Nixon

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

Clint Eastwood

It's not about you. It's about them.

Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Aneurin Bevan

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Anais Nin

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

Anais Nin

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly ...

Anne Graham Lotz

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

Anne F. Beiler

Its so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you arent certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

Anita Roddick

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Anita Roddick

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Chuck Knox

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Knox

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Chuck Hagel

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Anne Bancroft

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Andrew Carnegie

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Anne Sweeney

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Anne Sweeney

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Angela Davis

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Amy Hempel

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Althea Gibson

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anita Dunn

Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Ambrose Bierce

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.