Inspiring Hero Quotes to Ignite the Fire Within You - page 19

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
 Daniel Goleman
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
 James C. Collins
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
 Scott Turow
There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.
 Ashfaqulla Khan
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
 Alphonse de Lamartine
The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.
 Peter Jacobsen
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
 Gregg Harper
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
 Jeff Bezos
The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.
 Lala Lajpat Rai
I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I\'m a hero, but I\'m just a concerned citizen and I\'m just doing the right thing.
I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.
 Brendon Ayanbadejo
Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.
Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.
 Horst Schulze
“In the warrior’s code there’s no surrender, though his body says stop… his spirit cries, never!”
 Survivor, Burning Heart
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.
 Urijah Faber
It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.
 Sergio Martinez
When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.
 Tomoki Kameda
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.