Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Victoria

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Queen Elizabeth II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Queen Elizabeth II

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Plato

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

John Mayer

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Landis

I have always loved you.

Joseph Hall

He is great enough that is his own master.

Karch Kiraly

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

Judy Biggert

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

Kate Millett

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

Lane Kirkland

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lance Secretan

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

Lance Secretan

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Lance Secretan

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

John Kessel

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

John Kessel

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

John Kessel

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

John Kessel

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.

Junior Seau

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

John Sculley

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Martin O'Malley

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

Martin McGuinness

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Mortimer Adler

All genuine learning is active, not passive.