Lindsey Morgan Quotes

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I've always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.

Being the main guy for three or four years, I understood what it took to be the leader.

As captain I enjoy the responsibility. Even when I didn't have the armband I was doing a lot outwith the club so it has been an easy transition.

I think the main thing is to give your best regardless of whether you're the captain or not.

You can get a lot done when you don't care about credit. My name was not on Medicaid expansion, but it never would have happened without the work that I did. The best leaders are the ones that want results, not credit.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

I've been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I've been, I've worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I've never looked beyond that.

You have to step up when your number is called.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

If everyone is motivated, we will succeed. If people are aware of their responsibilities, we will succeed. If people are committed, we will succeed. Don’t wait for things to happen. Make things happen! It is OK to take risks, Sometimes you will make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, and you will succeed.

One of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I don't want the power. When a project is given to me, and I say yes, I'm gonna oblige everybody who has the power to try to make it work.