Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Sauerbrey

The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.

Ellen Tauscher

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

All of our seniors are going to play big roles for us. They have been big all year with their leadership and how they have stepped up.

Herman Wouk

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henri Rousseau

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

Henri Poincare

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

Hilary Duff

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Cloud

Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's "accountable to a board," he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.

Johann Lamont

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Kerry Packer

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are lead by trifles.

Napoleon Hill

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Napoleon Hill

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders deal in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.