Leader Quotes - Page 39

I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

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

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.