Quotes About Leadership

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? - Edward II, 5.1

I am a shepherd, too, like Polyphemus, so I knew all about it.

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, every other teams were delighted.

To be a hero, you had to learn how to think, run, fight, and talk—even eat, sleep, and crawl—like a hero.

Ann knew she needed more than willpower: she needed fear. Once she was out front, every cracking twig would spur her toward the finish. "To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

The leader exists to help others in an unbiased and unassuming way, nourishing any and all followers ("The wise leader is like water").

Models of leader attributes that dominated in the early part of the 20th century emphasized leader traits. Several surveys and reviews of this literature identified a number of dispositional qualities that distinguished leaders from nonleaders, including intelligence, originality, dependability, initiative, desire to excel, sociability, adaptability, extroversion, and dominance. However, no single personal quality was strongly and consistently correlated with leadership.

Leadership reflects an orientation to promote, direct, and manage social action. This orientation is grounded in a need for dominance and constructive power. The effective engagement of leadership processes follows from high self-confidence and from significant cognitive and social capabilities.

The LBDQ-VII is one of the earliest and most widely used instruments of leadership behavior. It emerged from the Ohio State leadership research teams and evolved to its present form to cover 12 aspects of leadership behavior. These were representation, demand reconciliation, tolerance of uncertainty, persuasiveness, initiating structure, tolerance of freedom, role assumption, consideration, production emphasis, predictive accuracy, integration, and superior orientation.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

organigram. Nothing that might shed any real light on his day-to-day tasks.

I would so much rather put up with mortars and rockets than headquarters. Mortars and rockets are exciting and can only kill you, but those guys can frustrate and bore you to death, which is a damned sight worse. The home of the useless regulations!!!'[6]

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

I followed Him for His wisdom. But served Him for His goodness.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

I believe we leaders need to live according to a biblical process, not according to a ministry model.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Cu Chulainn will] spill the blood of everybody in the fort unless you act quickly and send the naked women out to meet him." ... "Bring on the naked women!" said Conchobar.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.