Difficulty Of Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity — Reed Markham

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight. — Bob Richards

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so. — Dominique Sutton

Andi went rigid.
For the first time today, despite everything Dex had thrown at her, she actually looked stricken. Shocked. Pained.
"Hello, Androma," the man on the screen said. "I've been searching for you a very, very long time."
Dex smiled. This was worth more than all the Krevs in the galaxy. — Sasha Alsberg

Nancy was so thrilled, I thought she was going to kiss me - and I thought I was actually going to have to hit a chick. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash. — Elton Trueblood

What do you mean we set the land mines on the wrong hill? — Rick Riordan

Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it simply does not possess. The market does not lead, balance or encourage democracy. However, properly regulated it is the most effective way to conduct business.
It cannot give leadership even on straight economic issues. The world-wide depletion of fish stocks is a recent example. The number of fish caught between 1950 and 1989 multiplied by five. The fishing fleet went from 585,000 boats in 1970 to 1.2 million in 1990 and on to 3.5 million today (1995). No one thought about the long- or even medium-term maintenance of stocks; not the fishermen, not the boat builders, not the fish wholesalers who found new uses for their product, including fertilizer and chicken feed; not the financiers. It wasn't their job. Their job was to worry about their own interests.
(IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth) — John Ralston Saul

Men and women aren't too dissimilar. — Chris Evans

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms. — David Whyte

Earl "The Goat" Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world. — Tucker Max

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition. — Pratibha Patil

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe. — Margaret Stohl

Love is the most powerful force in the world. If people tell you that the opposite of love is fear, it is not so. Love just is. Love has no opposite. Remember that, dear one. Love has no opposite. Love just is. It is the answer to everything. Everything. — Dolores Cannon

This is the ordinariness of the Present, without anything special, mystic or mysterious, it simply exists!! One should live through one's life from moment to moment, and allow things happen the way they want to happen. Abandon yourself into the Present! Be consciously present in every moment! — Frank M. Wanderer

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. — Geraldine Brooks

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me. — Joe Theismann

Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken. — Whiting Williams

Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson ... Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers. — Laurence Steinberg

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like. — Rose Byrne

I returned the vial to the book, then surveyed the damage to my library. Angry as I was at Deb's betrayal, seeing the bullet-ridden texts was worse. It was one thing to shoot at me, but to destroy my books — Jim C. Hines

Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease. — W.K. Marriott

Be a good little Alice and just follow the White Rabbit, okay? — Elle Lothlorien

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. — Michelle Monaghan