Leadership Quotes

""Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.""

- Joe Torre

"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it."

- George H. W. Bush

"You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people."

- Cornel West

"A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, where upon the other follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."

- Nelson Mandela

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"Many people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."

- Zig Ziglar

"God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."

- E.M. Bounds

"The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up."

- John Maxwell

"A large chair does not make a king."

- Sudanese Proverb

"Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table."

- Barack Obama

"You won't get a sniff without me."

- Scar

"A true king's power is his compassion."

- Sarabi

"Long live the king."

- Scar

"You can be the lead in your own life."

- Kerry Washington

"The effect of [a representative democracy is] to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation…"

- James Madison

"The major problem— one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

- Douglas Adams

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

- Plato

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

- Benjamin Disraeli

"vote that shakes the turrets of the land."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Strategy is the bridge between a gamer's vision and victory."

"Tactics may win the battle, but strategy wins the game."

"Strategy is the secret weapon for gamers playing the long game."

"Behind every successful gamer, there's a string of strategic decisions."

"A well-formulated strategy is a gamer's best companion."

"Motivation is also a key factor in leadership. A motivated team is a productive team, and understanding what motivates your employees can help you create a positive and inspiring work environment."

"Teach, love, inspire, lead, motivate"

"Be willing to say to those in your charge, “I don’t know.”"

"There are three ways to lead: 1. By example 2. By example 3. By example."