Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore C. Sorensen

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Theodore Hesburgh

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore Hesburgh

Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Kin Hubbard

The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.

Kevin Rudd

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians...

Nancy Pelosi

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

LaVell Edwards

He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.

John Updike

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Selden

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

James Goodnight

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

James Fisher

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Larry Holmes

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Harvey Mackay

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Harvey Mackay

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

Henry Rollins

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Henry A. Kissinger

Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Helen Hunt

A small step in a good direction.

Henry George

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.