Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Hopper

You manage things; you lead people.

Georg Brandes

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

Gene Edwards

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Gary Hamel

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

Jennifer Aniston

I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Francisco Franco

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.

Hugh Mackay

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

Hugh Mackay

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

Hugh Mackay

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Hugh Mackay

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Homer

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer

Too many kings can ruin an army

Homer

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

I do think he's trying to pull a leadership role here a little more than being the economist, and that leadership is trying to get people upbeat.

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 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.