Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Yogi Berra

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Winston Churchill

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Winston Churchill

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Winston Churchill

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Winston Churchill

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

Winston Churchill

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Winston Churchill

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Winston Churchill

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

Winston Churchill

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Vince Lombardi

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Rudyard Kipling

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

Rudy Giuliani

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

William Hazlitt

Those who can command themselves command others.

Wendell Willkie

Education is the mother of leadership.

Walter Russell Mead

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

William Penn

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

Zig Ziglar

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Zig Ziglar

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Zig Ziglar

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

Zoe Saldana

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

Republicans aren't thinking as they used to think on these issues. There has been a role reversal at the leadership level and it has trickled down.

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,