Leadership Quotes

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

The truth is that problems won't just go away.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

You cannot lead people you do not influence.

Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.

We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.

I've gained great respect for the Republican leadership. I've gained great respect for many - and I'm going to even say - I mean, in different forms for the people on the dais, in different forms.