Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Simon Sinek

Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.

Simon Sinek

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.

Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.

Junior Seau

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

Ovid

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henri Rousseau

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

Henri Poincare

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

Hilary Duff

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Joe Torre

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Joe Lieberman

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

John Dryden

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

John Mayer

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

Pete Rose

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Queen Victoria

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Queen Elizabeth II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.