Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Golding

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

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Janet Reno

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Jane Harman

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Jalal Talabani

But, we must understand this reality-the leadership of any people is responsible for their own policy, and must not put responsibility on the shoulders of others.

Jeff Flake

I can tell you if we don't see more than rhetoric, this leadership team is not secure.

Carl von Clausewitz

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Miley Cyrus

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

Calvin Coolidge

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

Bryant H. McGill

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Cesar Chavez

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Cesar Chavez

These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

Cesar Chavez

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Charles R. Swindoll

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Charles Kettering

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Charles Kettering

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Darwin

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Charlene Li

Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

Bobby Darin

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Barbara Boxer

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Arleigh Burke

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.

Arleigh Burke

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Aristophanes

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Antonin Scalia

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Edmund Spenser

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Burke

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Edmund Burke

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Andre Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Amelia Earhart

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