Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Ness

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Laurence Gonzales

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

Laurence J. Peter

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Lefty Gomez

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Ken Blanchard

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ken Blanchard

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.

Ken Blanchard

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Ken Blanchard

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Ken Blanchard

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Ken Blanchard

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

Omar N. Bradley

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

Omar N. Bradley

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Omar N. Bradley

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

Elizabeth I

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

Elizabeth I

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Arthur Guiterman

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Mike Krzyzewski

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

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.

John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Lindsey Graham

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

Lindsey Graham

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Peter Salovey

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.