A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.”
“As a lawyer, I hate to use the "on the one hand, but the other".”
“As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.”
“As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.”
“As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!”
“As a leader, focus on building PEOPLE. Build other LEADERS. Focus on developing those who are inside and make them strong”
“As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.”
“As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead”
Source: F(X) Leadership Unleashed!
“As a leader, it is not enough for you to be successful. You need to help your people be successful.”
Source: Les 21 qualités indispensables à tout leader
“As a leader, it is possible to be both loved and respected. You don’t have to be a pushover to be loved, and you don’t have to be a bully to be respected.”
“As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
“As a leader, it's important to trust your team. When they feel that trust from you, they'll give it back.”
“As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.”
Source: Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
“As a leader, no matter how difficult a situation may be, always follow up and circle back with disgruntled people. Even if you are unable to solve their problem, sometimes it can be enough just to show that you care.”
“As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.”
“As a leader, putting trust in you is one thing. Believing in you, beyond their senses is really something. Something that you need to treasure, because not everyone believe in what they don’t see.”
“As a leader who delivers victory, people are more likely and more willing to follow you.”
Source: Business Leadership: The Key Elements
“As a leader you are expected to have a positive impact on results.”
Source: Leadership Challenge 4th E
“As a leader, you are supposed to create better leaders who would succeed you not the unhealthy environment around you. Like it's said leader make leaders and coward makes cowards”
“As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission”
“as a leader, you can walk around like you're God, and give everyone the quiver, but, then, you're not going to learn anything”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness
“As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.”
“As a leader, you must practice the discipline of renewal in solitude and lead others to do likewise.”
“As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.”
“As a leader, you're not paid to make decisions. You're paid to get results from decisions.”
Source: Becoming The Fulfilled Leader: 10 Personal Leadership Principles Learned Through An Unlikely Friendship
“As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.”
“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”
“As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders learn to right the wrong of society.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“As a leader, your job isn’t to inspire people. Your job is to create an inspiration platform.”
Source: You Do You(ish): Unleash Your Authentic Superpowers to Get the Career You Deserve
“As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.”
“As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.”
“As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.”
Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
“As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.”
“As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."”
“As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.”
Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
“As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.”
“As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.”
“As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.”
“As a leader, you have the choice to determine what you are going to do and how you are going to engage others. You can decide to act compassionately regardless of what the weather is - whether it is cloudy or sunny - or whether things are inspirational or not.”
“As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.”
“As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.”
“As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.”
Source: The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage
“As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.”
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
“As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.”
“As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.”
“As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.”
“As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.”
“As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
“As a leftover sixties liberal, I believe that the long arm and beady eyes of the government have no place in our bedrooms, our kitchens, or the backseats of our parked cars. But I also feel that the immediate appointment of a Special Pastry Prosecutor would do much more good than harm. We know the free market has totally failed when 89 percent of all the tart pastry, chocolate-chip cookies, and tuiles in America are far less delicious than they would be if bakers simply followed a few readily available recipes. What we need is a system of graduated fines and perhaps short jail sentences to discourage the production of totally depressing baked goods. Maybe a period of unpleasant and tedious community service could be substituted for jail time.”
Source: It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything