Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Smart

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Eric Holder

In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.

Eric Hoffer

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Eric Hoffer

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Eric Hoffer

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

Eric Hoffer

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Bolling

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

Emmitt Smith

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

John Breaux

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

M. Russell Ballard

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

M. Russell Ballard

Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.

M. Russell Ballard

Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

M. Scott Peck

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

John Boehner

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Their leadership wouldn't settle for one year. We offered to settle, but they wanted a two-year contract.

Gloria Steinem

You are the leader you've been waiting for.

Geraldine Ferraro

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Geraldine Ferraro

Some leaders are born women.

Harry S Truman

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

Harry S Truman

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

Harry S Truman

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It's right and wrong and leadership.

Harry S Truman

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

Harry S Truman

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

Harry S Truman

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Harry S Truman

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

Harry S Truman

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S Truman

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry S Truman

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Harry S Truman

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

J. Paul Getty

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

J. Michael Straczynski

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.