Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Condoleezza Rice

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Dan Simmons

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Fouts

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Dan Gable

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cornelius Nepos

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Confucius

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

Confucius

To become a leader, you must first become a human being

Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daley Thompson

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

David Cameron

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

Darrell Hammond

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

David Letterman

The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

David Letterman

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

David Letterman

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

David Gergen

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Deepak Chopra

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.

Anna Quindlen

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

Chuck Noll

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

Chuck Tanner

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Chuck Palahniuk

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.