Leadership Quotes - Page 122

Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

You cannot lead people you do not influence.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.

Stand up for what you think is right. That might be very different from what I am saying today, but you are allowed to differ from me just as I am allowed to differ from you. That is part of our strength as a country that we can differ from each other.

These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

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.

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.

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.

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

Leadership is the dream made reality.

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.