Quotes About Leadership

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

At our best, we are all teachers

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

Don't agonise, organise.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

The nerds are running the world now.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.