Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Stephen Covey

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Stephen Covey

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Stephen Covey

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Stephen Covey

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Vanna Bonta

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Vanna Bonta

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Vanna Bonta

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Vaclav Havel

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Susan Jeffers

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

Sun Tzu

Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

Sun Tzu

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Richard Armour

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Sydney J. Harris

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Reza Aslan

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

Rick Warren

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Tracy Austin

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Vince Lombardi

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Vince Lombardi

A man is known by the company he owns.

Vince Lombardi

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow