Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Ramsey

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

Michael Kirby

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

Mark Twain

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Freddie Mercury

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Christine Nixon

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Christine O'Donnell

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize

Chris Hadfield

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Frances Wright

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

Fran Tarkenton

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

George Noory

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Neale Donald Walsch

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

Neale Donald Walsch

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

Nate Parker

I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.

Nancy Pelosi

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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.

Kevin Rudd

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.