Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald R. Ford

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Jessamyn West

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

I can see him being a leader of men, in a smaller role to start with but it could be anything as well.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Howard Schultz

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Honore de Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Francisco Franco

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.

Hugh Mackay

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

Hugh Mackay

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

Hugh Mackay

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Hugh Mackay

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Homer

Too many kings can ruin an army

Homer

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

If I don't put points on the board, I don't know how else they'll get up there. I have to lead by example.

Estelle

If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.

Bill Self

I could see him being one of our leading scorers,

I do think he's trying to pull a leadership role here a little more than being the economist, and that leadership is trying to get people upbeat.

Stephen Harper

I don't think any federalist leader should be urging people to vote for the Bloc.

I feel as a senior you automatically become a leader because you've had three years of experience.

I don?t think we give up two-goal leads very often.

How that's done leads to efficiently run meetings.

Enzo Ferrari

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jason Stearns

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

Hillary Clinton

I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on.

Hillary Clinton

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes. We supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia. But we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

Hillary Clinton

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Hillary Clinton

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Evan Esar

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.