Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Shorten

What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.

Bianca Jagger

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I think they got the lead and thought that was good. They sat back a little bit.

Saddam Hussein

It is a tragedy. I led you for 35 years. How can you lead me out of court? Shame on you.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Landon is an experienced player. He's a player we will look to not only lead us but to be important in our attack.

Rod Smith

I see him leading a team, I see him leading an organization.

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

That can lead to oversupply from six months to 12 months on. But in the next six months, the momentum for aluminum is very strong and prices will rise.

My mom was really my first scout leader. If it weren't for women, we wouldn't have the leadership that we need.

Look, it's a tumultuous, challenging time for the party. That simply means that the leadership of the party has to be up to that challenge.

Joe Gibbs

Mark and other team members have worked cooperatively with us in renegotiations, approaching the matter like the veterans and team leaders that they are.

Marty will be great. He's been a leader the whole time. It's not that big of an issue.

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

Justin Dentmon

I think he's being more of a leader and showing everyone that he can lead this team.

Michael Strahan

I think I've done just about everything I could do as a leader, ... You lead by words, by example.

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is not the experience, it is leadership that counts,