Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Shula

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

Don Shula

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Dick Pound

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

Dick Morris

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

Desmond Tutu

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Derek Sivers

There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.

Deepak Chopra

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

Chuck Knox

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Knox

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Chuck Hagel

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Anne Bancroft

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Andrew Carnegie

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Anne Sweeney

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Anne Sweeney

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Angela Davis

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Amy Hempel

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Althea Gibson

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anita Dunn

Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

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

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

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

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

Confucius

To become a leader, you must first become a human being