Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Margaret Cho

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Paul Johnson

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Ma Huateng

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Michael Jordan

Earn your leadership every day.

Michael Dell

We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Mark Millar

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

Mary Matalin

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Marva Collins

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Mark Twain

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Pat Roberts

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

Pat Summitt

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

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.

Martha Beck

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

Mark Gorman

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Marguerite Young

Don't blindly follow any leader.

Marguerite Young

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Paul Ryan

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Paul Ryan

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.