Leader Quotes - Page 21

• I always tell D-West, 'We're the leaders on the team, and if we go down, we've got to go down shooting.'

  Chris Paul

  Team, Shooting, West

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• I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

  Tony Parker

  Nba, Want, Firsts

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• Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Great Leader

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• Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorant Masses, Flags, Glory

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• Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

  Chris Bosh

  Peers, Looks, Tone

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• Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

  Peter Drucker

  Hype, Three, Mao

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• I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

  Lamar Odom

  Natural, Felt

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• I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
  Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
  So then why get upset if somebody like me
  Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

  Al Yankovic

  People, Upset, Trying

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• As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

  Salil Shetty

  World, Injustice, Accepting

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• Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

  Leonard Pitts

  Helping, Prime, Greater Good

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• If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

  John C. Maxwell

  Want, Ifs

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• I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.

  Thierry Henry

  Morning, Team, Player

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• It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

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• Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Giving, Hug

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

  Prince Philip

  Responsibility, People, Appreciate

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• I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

  Prince Philip

  Responsibility, What If, Together

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• Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Positive Impact, Position

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Moving, Boys

  "After review, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2012.

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• For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

  Tom DeLay

  Party, Ideas, Faults

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

  Duane Elgin

  Entrepreneur, Waiting, Social

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• A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Opportunity, Long, People

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• Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

  James M. Kouzes

  Times Of Crisis, Crisis

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• Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Generations, Roles, Never Forget

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• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Leadership, Boss

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Cutting, Men, Hair

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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