Quotes About Leadership

I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt's footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

Teachers are heroes.

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.