Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Chavez

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

I would love to be a corporate leader.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Charles R. Swindoll

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Charles Kettering

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Charles Kettering

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Darwin

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Charlene Li

Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

Bobby Darin

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Barbara Boxer

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Arleigh Burke

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.

Arleigh Burke

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Aristophanes

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Antonin Scalia

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Edmund Hillary

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

Edmund Spenser

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Burke

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Edmund Burke

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Edward Snowden

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

We have a role, but we're not the leader in this.

Dwyane Wade

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

Colin Powell

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

Colin Powell

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

We should work in unison and with co-operation because disunity leads to problems and failures.

We should have won. If you have the lead in overtime, you ought to win.

Andre Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Albert Schweitzer

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Amelia Earhart

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Daniel Inouye

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Kahneman

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.