Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John P. Kotter

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John P. Kotter

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

John P. Kotter

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

John P. Kotter

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John Owen

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces - self-denial, readiness to the cross - they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.

Norman Cousins

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Rick Santelli

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

Rick Santorum

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.

Rick Perry

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership, the specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.