Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Pete Seeger

Be wary of great leaders.

Pete Seeger

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

Pete du Pont

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete du Pont

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Phil Ochs

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

Peter MacKay

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Phyllis Schlafly

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

Polybius

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Nathaniel Branden

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

Jim Ramstad

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Rohn

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

Jim Rohn

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Jim Rohn

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

Jim Rohn

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Jimmy Fallon

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

John Cornyn

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

Jody Williams

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

Joe Biden

I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote for him at the front end. We could have filibustered that and stopped it. George and I - George was the leader at the time - took the heat from every liberal group saying, "No, no, that's not the way the system is supposed to work, since the Constitution - the president shall propose and the Constitution shall dispose, we're going to let them hear this."

Joe Biden

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

Jimmy Haslam

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Lindsey Graham

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Linda Chavez

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Leo Tolstoy

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Leslie Nielsen

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.