Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

Howard Gardner

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Hoshyar Zebari

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

Gough Whitlam

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Gianfranco Fini

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Hassan Rouhani

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

Harold Ramis

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Jacques Delors

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Jacques Chirac

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

Jennifer Aniston

I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

Gerald R. Ford

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Jessamyn West

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Glenn Close

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

Glenn Beck

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

Frank Herbert

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

Hakeem Olajuwon

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Haile Selassie

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations

Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Howard Schultz

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Honore de Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Husain Haqqani

Three American presidents-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson-have asked the question: What do we get from aiding Pakistan? Five-Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama-have wondered aloud whether Pakistan's leaders can be trusted to keep their word.

James Callaghan

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

Ella Baker

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.

Ella Baker

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

Ella Baker

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Francisco Franco

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.