Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Bruce Golding

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

Barbara Mikulski

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Barbara Sher

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Barbara Sher

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state.

Ayn Rand

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Ayn Rand

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Benito Mussolini

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

Benjamin Disraeli

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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.

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.

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.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Donna Karan

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

George Ryan

without his leadership we might not be here this afternoon.

We've got tremendous leadership on this team period - it doesn't matter who wears the letters.

This season, she's a completely different person than she was as a freshman. She took the leadership on the women's side this year. Vanessa has all my respect and I'm very proud to swim with her.

We think the two-year time period provides the stable leadership that we need to really do this the right way.

Orson Scott Card

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.