Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Amash

I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Joseph Stalin

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

Mike Huckabee

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Mike Huckabee

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

Mike Huckabee

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

Mike Huckabee

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

Mike Huckabee

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

Mike Huckabee

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

Mike Huckabee

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

Mike Huckabee

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

Mike Huckabee

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

Newt Gingrich

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

Newt Gingrich

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Newt Gingrich

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

Newt Gingrich

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Nhat Hanh

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Noam Chomsky

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Noam Chomsky

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

Joe Namath

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

John Grierson

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

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.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

Mark Millar

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

Mary Matalin

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Marva Collins

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Mark Twain

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

Neal A. Maxwell

The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

Neal A. Maxwell

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.