Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Jessica Lange

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

Golda Meir

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Homer

Trying is the first step to failure

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

Homer

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer

Too many kings can ruin an army

Homer

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

I do think he's trying to pull a leadership role here a little more than being the economist, and that leadership is trying to get people upbeat.

Chris Chelios

His leadership in the room, obviously, has been so important,

That kind of leadership is what I was looking for in a chief.

Gail Devers

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Gail Devers

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

Gail Sheehy

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

Fernand Braudel

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Ferdinand Foch

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Faye Wattleton

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Fareed Zakaria

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

Evelyn Ashford

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

Francis Maude

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Ella Baker

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Hugh Mackay

It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

Hugh Mackay

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

Hugh Mackay

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Hugh Mackay

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Erskine Bowles

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Christie Hefner

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.