Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Fiorina

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

Bum Phillips

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Bum Phillips

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

Bum Phillips

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

James Dobson

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Erskine Bowles

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Ernest Shackleton

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Evan Thomas

A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Glenn Close

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

Frank Herbert

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

Hakeem Olajuwon

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Haile Selassie

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations

Jerry Kramer

Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

Carly Fiorina

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

Milton Glaser

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Julia Gillard

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Julia Gillard

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

Julia Gillard

One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Kristin Hersh

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Knute Rockne

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Knute Rockne

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Myles Munroe

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

Myles Munroe

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

Myles Munroe

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

Myles Munroe

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

Myles Munroe

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

Myles Munroe

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

Myles Munroe

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Myles Munroe

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

Myles Munroe

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

Myles Munroe

We live our lives based on who we think we are.