Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate McKinnon

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

Judy Biggert

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

Kate Millett

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

Lane Kirkland

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lance Secretan

More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

Lance Secretan

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Lance Secretan

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

John Kessel

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

John Kessel

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

John Kessel

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

John Kessel

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

John Kasich

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

John Kasich

Leaders have to lead.

Otto Schily

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

Oswald Spengler

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Kapil Dev

Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.

Kanye West

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Junior Seau

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it... With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. ... The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

Maria Shriver

you are the leader you've been looking for

Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

Paul Kagame

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

John Sculley

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Martin O'Malley

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

Martin McGuinness

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Mortimer Adler

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

Paul Brown

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Martha Graham

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.