Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Harper

I don't think any federalist leader should be urging people to vote for the Bloc.

I feel as a senior you automatically become a leader because you've had three years of experience.

I don?t think we give up two-goal leads very often.

How that's done leads to efficiently run meetings.

I can see him being a leader of men, in a smaller role to start with but it could be anything as well.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Howard Schultz

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Honore de Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Hassan Rouhani

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

Harold Ramis

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Jacques Delors

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Jacques Chirac

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

James Callaghan

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

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.

Irving Babbitt

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Neale Donald Walsch

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

Neale Donald Walsch

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

Nate Parker

I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.

Nancy Pelosi

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

Kevin Rudd

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

Kelly Ayotte

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

Kelley Armstrong

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.