Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Andy Grove

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Abe Lemons

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

Alexander the Great

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander the Great

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Dan Hampton

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Dan Jenkins

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Clint Eastwood

It's not about you. It's about them.

Donald Trump

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Donald Trump

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Duffy Daugherty

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Albert Schweitzer

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Amelia Earhart

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Daniel Inouye

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Kahneman

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

D. H. Lawrence

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

D. H. Lawrence

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

D. H. Lawrence

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

D. H. Lawrence

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D. H. Lawrence

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Daniel Defoe

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.