Leaders Quotes

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.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

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.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

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.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

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.

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.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.