Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

Ambrose Bierce

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Andy Grove

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Amy Poehler

A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

He obviously was the offensive leader of the team. He had a lot of speed and he was strong in the middle. He was one of the better two-way players around.

Janet Reno

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Jane Harman

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Knight

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

Bob Ehrlich

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Bob Ehrlich

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Bob Corker

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

Bob Cousy

In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?

Bob Dylan

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

Bob Dylan

Don't follow leaders.

Boris Yeltsin

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Bonnie Blair

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Bruce Henderson

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Bruce Forsyth

I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

Brendon Burchard

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.

Bobby Darin

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Barbara Boxer

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Arleigh Burke

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.

Arleigh Burke

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Aristophanes

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Antonin Scalia

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.