Leadership Quotes - Page 53

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.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.