Quotes About Leadership

If it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. ROMANS 12:8

He poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. JOHN 13:5

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

The pursuit of power is overwhelmingly and universally a male trait. To rise in the hierarchy, men are much more prepare than women to make sacrifices of their own time, pleasure, relocations health, safety, or emotions.

He doesn't want to answer any more questions with "I don't know." He wants his son to be responsible. He'd like him to be brave. Remi just wants to be the good guy, the good father. Just for once, he'd like his son to look up to him, to trust him

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually," he told Bellini, that every man in Europe "must be either the hammer or the anvil.

When possible, divide and conquer. Have the people who make the decisions to start things be different from the people who make the decisions to stop those things. For clients of mine who are institutional investors, I have suggested that type of strategy as a way to improve their sell-side decisions. Have the committee approving what to buy be different from the committee approving what and when to sell.

BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen.

We won't make a drama out of a crisis.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Work like a captain. Play like a pirate.

Divide and rule.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

Even if you don't become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.

I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'