Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Stearns

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

Hillary Clinton

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes. We supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia. But we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Evan Esar

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

Estelle Ramey

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.

Heather Wilson

I have told the leadership I am opposed,

Henry Mintzberg

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Henry Mintzberg

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

Henry Mintzberg

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

George Eliot

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

George Horace Lorimer

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Francis of Assisi

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis Chan

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

Francis Chan

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

Francis Chan

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Francis Chan

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

Francis Chan

We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

Francis Chan

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

Francis Chan

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.

Francis Chan

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

Francis Chan

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

Francis Chan

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Francis Chan

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

He's the man we look for. He's our go-to-guy for leadership and scoring.

Doug Wilson

He's an important part of this team in the present and the future, not only with his skating and physical presence, but he's taken on a leadership role,

George Bernard Shaw

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.