Charlamagne tha God Quotes

You have to be strong for people when you don't wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress.

People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.

I'm an emotional fighter.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.