Leader famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
-- A. C. Cuza -
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
-- Abba Eban -
I must follow them. I am their leader.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
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.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
-- Abul Kalam Azad -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-- Adam Lambert -
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
-- Adolf Hitler -
To be a leader means to be able to move masses
-- Adolf Hitler -
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
-- Adolf Hitler -
The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.
-- Adolf Hitler -
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
-- Adolf Hitler -
You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow
-- Adora Svitak -
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?
-- Ahmed Yassin -
It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
-- Ai-jen Poo -
What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
-- Al Ries -
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
-- Al Sharpton -
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.
-- Alan Cranston -
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
-- Alan Keyes -
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
-- Alan Keyes -
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
-- Alan Keyes -
The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
-- Alan Sugar -
We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.
-- Alan Trammell -
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
-- Alasdair Gray -
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
-- Albert Einstein -
A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.
-- Albert Kesselring -
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
-- Albert Mohler -
To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically
-- Albert Mohler -
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
-- Alcee Hastings -
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,
-- Alex Salmond -
I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.
-- Alexander Downer -
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
-- Alexander the Great -
Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
-- Alexei Navalny -
America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
-- Alice Walker -
I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.
-- Allister Coetzee -
America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
-- Alveda King -
It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.
-- Amani -
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
-- Aminu Kano -
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
-- Amy Chua -
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
-- Amy Hempel -
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms...
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn -
If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.
-- Anatoly Kuznetsov -
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
-- Andre Malraux -
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
-- Andre Malraux -
A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
-- Andrew Hill -
To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.
-- Andrew Leigh -
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
-- Andrew Ross Sorkin -
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
-- Andrew Shue -
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
-- Andy Grove -
If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
-- Andy Grove -
Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside
-- Andy Stanley -
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say
-- Andy Stanley -
A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
-- Andy Stanley -
A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
-- Andy Stanley -
As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.
-- Andy Stanley -
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
-- Anita Borg -
Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.
-- Anita Dunn -
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
-- Ann Coulter -
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
-- Ann Richards -
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
-- Ann Richards -
There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
-- Anne Rice -
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.
-- Anne Scott -
A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
-- Anne Sweeney -
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.
-- Annie Besant -
Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out — whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,
-- Anthony Romero -
Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,
-- Antony Beevor -
A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.
-- Anuj -
A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.
-- Anuj -
A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.
-- Anuj -
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
-- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell -
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.
-- Arianna Huffington -
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.
-- Ariel Sharon -
I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...
-- Arrian -
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?
-- Arthur Keith
