Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had the 8-4 lead with 13:42 left in the game. We were trying to take time off the clock.

We got out to a very quick lead and that makes if very tough for the other team.

O. Henry

The senior leadership was big for us. They made the transition smooth for me.

The sophomore class, they lead the pack, they lead by example. They'll motivate the older guys.

Patricia Clarkson

I've always wanted to be leading lady/character actress.

Richard Bach

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

Reza Aslan

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

Rick Warren

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

Rick Warren

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

Rick Warren

Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.

Rick Warren

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

Ovid

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Paul McCartney

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Mary McGrory

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Mary Douglas

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Mary Douglas

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Martina Navratilova

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

Pope John Paul II

A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.

Pope John Paul II

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Pierre de Coubertin

In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

Phillip Adams

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Phillip Adams

While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

Phillip Adams

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Philippe Petit

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Pope Francis

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Pope Francis

The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Pope Francis

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Phil McGraw

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Pete Seeger

Be wary of great leaders.

Pete Seeger

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.