Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Duffy Daugherty

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Donald Rumsfeld

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Don Nickles

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Ambrose Bierce

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

Ambrose Bierce

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Albert Schweitzer

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Amelia Earhart

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Anna Quindlen

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

Chuck Noll

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

Chuck Tanner

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.