Leader Quotes - Page 128

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

Leaders use story to author the future.

I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

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

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.