Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Yentob

Richard is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker.

Chinua Achebe

Nigerians are what they are because their leaders are not what they should be

Bruce Golding

On none of the previous occasions where there has been a transition of leadership has it been so prolonged.

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

John Marburger

We're not responding to a threat, we're maintaining a leadership role.

My mom was really my first scout leader. If it weren't for women, we wouldn't have the leadership that we need.

Look, it's a tumultuous, challenging time for the party. That simply means that the leadership of the party has to be up to that challenge.

Joe Gibbs

Mark and other team members have worked cooperatively with us in renegotiations, approaching the matter like the veterans and team leaders that they are.

Marty will be great. He's been a leader the whole time. It's not that big of an issue.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Anne M. Mulcahy

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Albert Schweitzer

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Amelia Earhart

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Daniel Inouye

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Kahneman

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

Daniel Kahneman

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

D. H. Lawrence

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

D. H. Lawrence

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

D. H. Lawrence

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

D. H. Lawrence

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D. H. Lawrence

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Daniel Defoe

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Alexander Pope

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

E. P. Thompson

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Douglas MacArthur

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.