Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Pete Seeger

Be wary of great leaders.

Pete Seeger

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

Pete du Pont

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete du Pont

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Phil Ochs

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

Peter MacKay

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Phyllis Schlafly

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

Polybius

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Nathaniel Branden

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

Jim Ramstad

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Rohn

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

Jim Rohn

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Jim Rohn

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.