Leaders Quotes

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

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.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

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.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.