Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

Stefan Zweig

Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

Stefan Zweig

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he himselfremained in the shadow as the source of light always does. But he who points the way into a new era is no less worthy of veneration than he who is the first to enter it; those who work invisibly have also accomplished a feat.

Sparky Anderson

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Tim Tebow

I don't know that I am a great leader at all, I just know I really care about what I do.

Thomas Leonard

Clarity affords focus.

Thomas Frank

Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Vilfredo Pareto

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Victor Cousin

You can only govern men by serving them.

Vicente Fox

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Vernon Davis

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

Stephen Covey

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Vanna Bonta

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Susana Martinez

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

Tariq Ramadan

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Tacitus

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

Tacitus

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

Tom Peters

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

Leaders do stuff that matters.

Tom Peters

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Tom Lantos

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Ford

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Sun Tzu

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.