Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Hillary Clinton

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes. We supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia. But we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Evan Esar

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

Estelle Ramey

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.

Faye Wattleton

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Fareed Zakaria

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

Evelyn Ashford

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

Francis Maude

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis of Assisi

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis Chan

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

Francis Chan

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

Francis Chan

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Francis Chan

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

Francis Chan

We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

Francis Chan

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

Francis Chan

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.

Francis Chan

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

Francis Chan

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

Francis Chan

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Francis Chan

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

Frances Wright

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

Fran Tarkenton

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

George W. Bush

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

George W. Bush

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

George W. Bush

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

George W. Bush

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George Soros

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Orwell

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.