Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordie Howe

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Geri Halliwell

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

Geraldine Brooks

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

Horace

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Herman Cain

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herb Kelleher

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,

Herb Kelleher

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

Herb Kelleher

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Estelle Ramey

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.

Evo Morales

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

Ernest Mandel

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

Erin Hunter

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

Henry Mintzberg

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Henry Mintzberg

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

Henry Mintzberg

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Henry Louis Gates

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

George Eliot

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Gough Whitlam

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Gianfranco Fini

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Hassan Rouhani

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

Harold Ramis

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Jacques Delors

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Jacques Chirac

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

James Callaghan

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

Ella Baker

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.