Leader Quotes - Page 124

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

Get the winners into the game.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.