Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Hook

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Sheryl Swoopes

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

Sheryl Swoopes

...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.

Sheryl Sandberg

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Shelagh Delaney

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Mwai Kibaki

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Tony Robbins

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

Tony Robbins

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

Tony Robbins

Leaders anticipate. Losers react

Tony Robbins

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Tony Robbins

Losers react,leaders anticipate.

Tony Robbins

The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

Tony Robbins

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

Tony Robbins

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Tony Blair

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Tony Blair

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

Tony Blair

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

Richard Branson

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Richard Branson

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Robert Andrews Millikan

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

Robert A. Heinlein

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

Steven Spielberg

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Tom Vilsack

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.

Tom Coburn

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

Tim Kaine

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

Tim Costello

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Tim Foley

Humility is always one play away.

Sam Houston

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]