Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
ConfuciusYou can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
Huey NewtonThe happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George EliotFascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul SartreI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaThe most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.
John C. MaxwellThe 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Joe BidenOnly a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
George W. BushI always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.
Mark ZuckerbergI am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Albert CamusObama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.
Noam ChomskyGood executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. MaxwellEvery Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.
Joe BidenGreat things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Steve JobsThe kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
Fidel CastroIf an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. NixonThe truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.
John KennedyMankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George WashingtonAs our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas JeffersonA director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘
George LucasI do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
Dolly PartonI have decided in 2020 to run for president.
Kanye WestMy relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouPolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellAll of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.
Michelle ObamaWhenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. TrumanPolitics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPeople buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
John C. MaxwellWhen we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert HooverTo paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.
Ronald ReaganOur brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack ObamaGovernment exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald ReaganI don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.
Noam ChomskyI break ground. I trailblaze.
Dwayne JohnsonHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouAs a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
John C. MaxwellIt’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin PowellEver since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
Edmund HillaryEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.
Russell M. NelsonFor my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillIt is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou HoltzBarack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.
Michelle ObamaThe best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. MaxwellThe presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard M. NixonSometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.
Kanye WestBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherIf aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen HawkingYou cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
George H. W. BushThere are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.
John KennedySurround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald ReaganYeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
Neil ArmstrongWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyA president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Harry S. TrumanConcede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham LincolnThere is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
Fidel CastroI felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
Dalai LamaMy wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
Lou Holtz