Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Don Nickles

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Don Shula

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Dick Pound

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

Desmond Tutu

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

David Ogilvy

Leaders grasp nettles.

David Ogilvy

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Darrell Royal

He looks like he needs worming.

Daisaku Ikeda

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Condoleezza Rice

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Dan Simmons

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Fouts

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Dan Gable

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cornelius Nepos

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Daley Thompson

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

David Cameron

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Letterman

The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

David Letterman

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

David Gergen

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Anna Quindlen

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.