Bill Byrd famous quotes

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
-- Bill Byrd

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And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.
-- Bill Byrd

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If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.
-- Bill Byrd

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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.