Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. H. Boetcker

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

William J. H. Boetcker

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Woody Hayes

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

Woody Hayes

When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.

Woodrow Wilson

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

Woodrow Wilson

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Wilt Chamberlain

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

Wilma Mankiller

Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

Will Rogers

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

W. Averell Harriman

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Zig Ziglar

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Yousef Munayyer

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

William Hazlitt

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

William Hazlitt

Those who can command themselves command others.

Wendell Willkie

Education is the mother of leadership.

Walter Russell Mead

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Warren Brown

I don't think either team can win it.

Werner Erhard

While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.

Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Wangari Maathai

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.

Keith Emerson

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

Rainn Wilson

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.