Leadership famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
-- A. B. Simpson -
I must follow them. I am their leader.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
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."
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
-- Adolph Rupp -
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.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
-- Agrippina the Younger -
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
-- Akio Morita -
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
-- Al McGuire -
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
-- Al McGuire -
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
-- Al Oerter -
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
-- Alan Autry -
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
-- Alan Cohen -
The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein -
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein -
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-- Albert Einstein -
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
-- Albert Einstein -
Force always attracts men of low morality.
-- Albert Einstein -
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-- Albert Einstein -
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
-- Albert Einstein -
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
-- Albert Einstein -
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
-- Alexander the Great -
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
-- Alexander the Great -
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
-- Alexis Hunter -
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
-- Alice Walker -
From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.
-- Althea Gibson -
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
-- Amelia Earhart -
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-- Andre Gide -
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
-- Andre Malraux -
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
-- Andre Maurois -
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
-- Andrew Greeley -
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.
-- Andrew Harvey -
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Pompous ***** knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
-- Anita Roddick -
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
-- Anita Roddick -
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers -
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
-- Anne Sweeney
