Famous Quotes & Sayings

Major Owens

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Mahatma Gandhi

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Mahatma Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mahatma Gandhi

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Otto Schily

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

Oswald Spengler

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Kapil Dev

Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.

Kanye West

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Junior Seau

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it... With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. ... The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

Maria Shriver

you are the leader you've been looking for

Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

Paul Kagame

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Greg Bear

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

John Breaux

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

M. Russell Ballard

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.