Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Condoleezza Rice

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Dan Simmons

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Fouts

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Dan Gable

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cornelius Nepos

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Dwyane Wade

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

Colin Powell

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

Colin Powell

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

Andrew Greeley

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andy Stanley

No one ever has the resources they need.

Andy Stanley

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

Andy Stanley

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

Andy Stanley

Resources follow vision.

Andy Stanley

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

Andy Stanley

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

Andy Stanley

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Andy Stanley

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

Andy Stanley

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

Andy Stanley

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

Andy Stanley

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

Andy Stanley

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

Andy Stanley

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

Andy Stanley

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

Andy Stanley

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

Andy Stanley

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Andy Stanley

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

Andy Stanley

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.