Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Grierson

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Evan Thomas

A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Milton Glaser

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Julia Gillard

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Julia Gillard

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

Julia Gillard

One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Pat Roberts

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

Pat Summitt

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Paul Brown

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Martha Graham

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Martha Beck

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

Mark Gorman

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Marguerite Young

Don't blindly follow any leader.

Marguerite Young

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Paul Ryan

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Paul Ryan

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Paul Ryan

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Paul Ryan

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Paul Ryan

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Justin Amash

I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Kristin Hersh

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Knute Rockne

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

Knute Rockne

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Myles Munroe

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.