Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

All you need to do is know who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Ken Olsen

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Ken Mehlman

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Margaret Cho

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

That senior leadership really paid off in the second half. They wanted to make sure they went out on a winning note, and they did.

Elizabeth I

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

Elizabeth I

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Arthur Guiterman

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Mary McGrory

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Mary Douglas

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Martina Navratilova

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

Pierre de Coubertin

In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

Phillip Adams

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Phillip Adams

While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

Phillip Adams

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Philippe Petit

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

Pope Francis

The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Pope Francis

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Pete du Pont

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Peter MacKay

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Phyllis Schlafly

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

Polybius

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Nathaniel Branden

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?