Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

LaVell Edwards

He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.

Lance Morrow

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Lisa Leslie

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Johnny Cash

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

John Updike

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Selden

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

John Ralston Saul

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

James Hunter

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

James Goodnight

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

James Fisher

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Larry Holmes

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Lamar Odom

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

Kyrie Irving

I haven't been a leader -- not at all.

Harvey Mackay

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Harvey Mackay

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

George Ayittey

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

And he would have had more (shutouts) had we not pulled him with big leads during the season.

Michael Redd

You want to go out there and lead your team to victory, and that's what it's all about, whether it be assists or making plays for others or scoring, rebounding.

Henry Rollins

The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

Henry Rollins

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Henry A. Kissinger

Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Helen Hunt

A small step in a good direction.

Henry George

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry Blodget

The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Helmut Schmidt

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.