Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Stanley

Progress requires change.

Andy Stanley

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Andy Stanley

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Andy Stanley

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

Andy Stanley

Leaders are made one response at a time.

Andy Stanley

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

Andy Stanley

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

Andy Stanley

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

Andy Stanley

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Andy Stanley

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

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.