Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bear Bryant

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

Barbara Corcoran

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

She has been taking the leadership role (at practice).

Robert Williams

Since it was my view that that type of leadership was not going to take us successfully to elections.

She is walking the talk. We need more leaders like her.

She is a super person, and her leadership abilities have been instrumental in our success. She is poised, and it rubs off on her teammates.

Bruce Barton

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

Brandon Sanderson

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

Brandon Sanderson

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

Brandon Sanderson

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Aretha Franklin

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Babe Ruth

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

Ashwin Sanghi

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

Barbara Mikulski

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Barbara Sher

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Barbara Sher

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state.

Edward Abbey

Grown men do not need leaders.

Aristotle

Fortune favours the bold.

Aristotle

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ed Markey

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.