Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ferdinand Foch

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Faye Wattleton

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Fareed Zakaria

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

Ezra Taft Benson

I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.

Evelyn Ashford

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

Francis Maude

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

It?s like a lead actor leaving a series.

Rush Limbaugh

It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year politics.

Rashean Mathis

It means a lot. He's a leader on this team. Any time you have your leader back, it means a lot.

It?s important (to start fast) but it?s more important not to be down 22-6. We haven?t been getting out to big leads like we had been in those games.

It was a big letdown. But tomorrow's a brand-new day and we still have a lead ." ()

It was nice to be tied at the half. We thought that was a nice momentum boost. And we actually had a little lead in the third quarter too. But our offense was still not in sync. And looking at 31 points it never got in sync.

It was a salute for being so strong, being a leader and being strong as a man. We won it for coach.

Ella Baker

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.

Ella Baker

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

Ella Baker

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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.

Patricia Clarkson

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

Erskine Bowles

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Ernest Shackleton

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Christie Hefner

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

In a race like this, a 15-point lead is news. But a 25-point lead is a tremendous advantage.

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.