Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
~By Paul Martin ~
I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
~By Henry Ellis ~
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
~By Roger Waters ~
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
~By Anne Campbell ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
~By Annie Besant ~
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
~By Chris Patten ~
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
~By Alan Cranston ~
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
~By Richard Grimes ~
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
~By John Ensign ~
As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.
~By Julius Streicher ~
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
~By George H. Walker ~
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Leadership does not depend on being right.
~By Ivan Illich ~
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
~By Herman Cain ~
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
~By Pete du Pont ~
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
~By Paul McCartney ~
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
~By Shannon Hoon ~
Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
~By Jacques Verges ~
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
~By Chester Irving Barnard ~
The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.
~By Hun Sen ~
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
~By Rodney Alexander ~
It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
~By Lee Scott ~
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
~By Jack Kingston ~
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
~By George Noory ~
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
~By Howard Coble ~
George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
~By Jim Edgar ~
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
~By John Lennon ~
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
~By Guy Lafleur ~
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
~By Tim Pawlenty ~
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
~By Octavia Butler ~
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
~By Julie Bowen ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.
~By Courtney Love ~
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
~By John Conyers ~
My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
~By Kristen Johnston ~
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
~By Ralph Nader ~
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
~By Bill Frist ~
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
~By James Forrestal ~
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
~By Ann Coulter ~
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
~By Steve Allen ~
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
~By Paul Robeson ~
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
~By Stephen Harper ~
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
~By William Blum ~
And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
~By Stephen Harper ~
In America, public opinion is the leader.
~By Frances Perkins ~
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
~By Adam Schiff ~
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
~By Peter Chernin ~
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Leadership is influence.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
~By Blaine Lee ~
There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
~By Norman Granz ~
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
~By Jim Cooper ~
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
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