Assuming Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. — Al Unser

I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome."
"To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]
"I will find them," Reyna said. — Rick Riordan

While driving and talking on a cell phone, how much of your world do you miss? The research findings suggest you could have your eyes wide open, but fail to see the car, the bike, or the deer about to cross your path. — David McRaney

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership. — Marco Rubio

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. — Sheryl Sandberg

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural. — Alan Hirsch

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you. — Mike Glenn

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. — Charles Caleb Colton

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. — Trevor Ravenscroft

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. — Martin Luther

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse. — Ellen G. White

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism. — Milos Forman

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. — Gary Hamel

Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do. — Tim Allen

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures. — Elizabeth Lesser

These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn't destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thorne's view was a sure sign they hadn't yet completed a formal education. — Michael Crichton

Happiness is self-connectedness. — Aristotle.

Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership. — Louis L'Amour

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself ... and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position. — Wilma Mankiller

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on. — Oscar De La Hoya

You're not dead.
I'm not dead.
Why? How?
Dying wasn't on my list. — Alex Adams