Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?

Walt Disney

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Walt Whitman

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Tom Coburn

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

Tim Costello

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Tim Foley

Humility is always one play away.

Sam Houston

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Rumi

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Roy Blunt

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

Rosa Luxemburg

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

Susan Collins

One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

Susan Collins

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Susan Collins

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Sheryl Swoopes

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

Sheryl Swoopes

...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.

Sheryl Sandberg

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Shelagh Delaney

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.