Character, competence, and commitment are the three pillars of effective leadership.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Playing under Sourav Ganguly taught me the essence of leadership.

Leadership is not just about captaincy; it’s about being a role model on and off the field.

Leadership is about doing what’s right, not what’s easy.

Leadership is about inspiring others to do their best.

Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

He’s very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

A leader must have a vision.

I have often said that the biggest job of a leader is to make sure that the people who are working with you are engaged.

Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

A captain is someone who will inspire the team and lead by example.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

Leadership is about creating a vision that others follow.

Uttar Pradesh’s heritage and culture will be preserved and celebrated under my leadership.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The Party’s leadership must be strong and effective.

The Party’s leadership ensures the continuity and stability of China’s development.

Real leadership is about making tough decisions for the right reasons.

Leadership on the pitch is essential for team cohesion.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized

Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are experiencing real pain, we’ve got to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for protestors.

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

To think that two and two are four And neither five nor three The heart of man has long been sore And long ’tis like to be.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life

Always keep your mind that the very moment when your life may stifle you anyway, then it is the true sign that your life is actually not yours.

I have always observed that we usually get at least some of the other reward for what we do, just like an appreciation.

When it comes to keeping up your appearance then, I feel that it is the most money intensive one.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.

Leadership is not about being in control; it’s about empowering others to reach their full potential.

[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership… ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

The true beauty of baseball is found in its traditions, from the seventh-inning stretch to the crack of the bat

Baseball is a game of strategy and intellect, as much as it is about physical prowess.

Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together – and under my leadership it will.

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit

It’s a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball

All I at any point needed to be was leader of the American League

When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

He made his character his platform.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Publicity is the engine of politics.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind’s eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true That who is what and what is who.” – Winnie-the-Pooh

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” – Pooh

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns

In Yorkshire there is only the impetus of decline; the farms, the woolen mills, the dairy rounds wither, unravel and turn sour. The family wears out, stumbles politely, tripping over drink and ennui and a genteel surrender to the momentum of underachievement.

At the end of the eighteenth century, science was one of the few areas in old Europe where illegitimacy could not overshadow accomplishment

By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all.

The Swiss—also a federation of semi-independent states—are even more attached to their guns than Texans, and they have a greater number per capita, but death by shooting is so rare they don’t even collate the figures

In the Edwardian way of things, collected indiscriminately and rigorously, with the global kleptomania of empire and the desire to own, calibrate, measure and stuff everything possible, to put all of creation into its place, and place as much of it as possible in glass cases.

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn’t an act of impatience, it’s an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities

He puts a pot, big enough to boil a small missionary, onto the wide burner and chucks in skeleton segments two-handed.

Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

It is better to have it and need it, than to need it and not have it.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude… men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

One man with courage is a majority.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated

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

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.

I like to watch the news, because I don’t like people very much and when you watch the news… If you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you’re right.

A true Zen saying: ‘Nothing is what I want.

God made us. He’s in charge of everything, right? If He didn’t like us, why didn’t he change us?

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

You’re at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become the bow. He was playing his life…He played that which he would never play again.

Think higher, feel deeper.

Success is voltage under control—keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

What you want is what I got You wanna get down? You gotta get up

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.

The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

Of course it’s good when you win the Champions League, the league, the golden boot. But when you win something for your country it’s completely different.

Effective teaching is the very essence of leadership in the church. Eternal life will come only as men and women are taught with such effectiveness that they change and discipline their lives. They cannot be coerced into righteousness or into heaven. They must be led, and that means teaching.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Leadership is all about getting results.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

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

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.