Quotes About Leadership

Basketball Rule #9 When the game is on the line, don't fear. Grab the ball. Take it to the hoop.

From Playbook Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.-Scottie Pippen, six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Turner was a lousy fighter, an inept swordsman, and most of the people he tried to kill didn't die by his hand. His sole strength was his superior brain. He became a leader of men because he had developed his mind by reading, which happened to be illegal. Coincidence?

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

she was faced with not only Pavel Kedrov, the director of the SVR, but with the president of Russia himself.

Those in power are those willing to do what it takes to gain power. While the context varies, depending on the region, the rule itself is inviolable.

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, DC USA

MITCH Rapp gave a quick knock on the Oval Office door and then entered.

the chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and a wild card he hadn't seen in years—TJ Burton, the head of FEMA.

seemed to be re-forming under the leadership of a former Iraqi army captain. He was no Sayid Halabi

you were only as good as the people you surrounded yourself with.

America's ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. —Anonymous

Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.

The ordained minister, the one set aside and consecrated, is to illuminate the vocation of the Church and the vocations of the many people who are the Church. That means that ordination is not exclusionary but exemplary."28

Then it hits me.... And it hits me with the force of a blow. I am maybe fifteen years old. I am a girl. I am also acting lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and, by the Naval Rules and Regulations as regards the chain of command, I am in command of His Majesty's Ship Wolverine .

Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.

it is not impossible that I could become Governor of this state. Or even President. I would not mind having a horde of sycophants licking my boots. Actually, that is quite an attractive notion. Thank you, Jacky, I had not thought of that." Amy

I may just have to make you my Queen of Shadows

Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.