Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.
I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.
That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.
U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.
Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive - they lack leadership!
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.
The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.