Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth I

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

Elizabeth I

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Eli Manning

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

B. C. Forbes

There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

B. C. Forbes

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Arthur Guiterman

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Arthur Helps

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

Arthur Helps

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

Blake Mycoskie

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement,

Billie Jean King

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Bill Hybels

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

Bill Hybels

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Bill Hybels

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

Bill Hybels

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Bill Hybels

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Bill Hybels

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Bill Hybels

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Bill Hybels

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

Bill Hybels

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

Bill Hybels

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Bill Hybels

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Bill Hybels

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Bill Hicks

The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.

Chad Hurley

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

We might have been a little comfortable with the lead and didn't come back out with the right attitude. We just didn't do what we did in the first half.

Dennis Hastert

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

Madeleine Albright

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We're going to try new things, folks, ... That's what leadership is all about.

When we got a one-point lead we ought to find a way to win, but we didn't.

David Robinson

When we got a lead we did not play smart. We need to play a solid 48 minutes.

When we get the lead big enough, they're going to come out and throw the ball. That puts us in situations where we can pressure.

When we get on a roll, we've got enough leadership to push them through the ups and downs.

Bob Graham

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.