Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Mahatma Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mahatma Gandhi

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Joe Torre

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Joe Lieberman

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Jimmy Carter

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

John C. Maxwell

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

John C. Maxwell

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

John C. Maxwell

Finish every day and be done with it..

John C. Maxwell

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

John C. Maxwell

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

John C. Maxwell

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

John C. Maxwell

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

John C. Maxwell

Listen twice as much as you speak.

All of our seniors are going to play big roles for us. They have been big all year with their leadership and how they have stepped up.

Herman Wouk

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

Henri Poincare

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.