Top 1200 Religious Leaders Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Leaders in the LDF are united and there are no differences.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

A quarterback should be leaders of the team.

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

People don't trust party leaders.

Leaders anticipate. Losers react

We should be thought leaders in America.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Losers react,leaders anticipate.

The race needs workers, not leaders.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who really put religion so front-and-center. He's the most Christ-y president we've ever had - and he is, not uncoincidentally, the biggest disaster we've ever had. I think even people who are religious don't like it shoved down their throat. I think people kind of get it on a certain level, that this is an antiscience administration, and we're living in a time where we can't afford to be antiscience - for environmental reasons, for educational reasons.

Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

Grown men do not need leaders.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Successful leaders are great askers

Leaders are those who empower others.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

We need new leaders, period.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.

Influencers are dreamers. They are leaders with a vision.

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

Leaders use story to author the future.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

The greatest leaders don't rule. They inspire

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In a strange way it's part of a democratization of society. Although religious observance seems more common these days, it's not that people who did not go to mosques have started to go to mosques. I don't know anyone in Turkey who's become a born-again Muslim. It's a question of individual choice, and it does not stop the organic secularization of Turkish society, which carries on regardless.

To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.

We make fun of our leaders.

I don't mind following good leaders.

I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching you is nothing but imitation. Religious people - the so-called religious people, the priests, the theologians - they are also teaching you, `Be like Jesus, be like Buddha, be like Krishna.` Nobody ever tells you, `Just be yourself` - nobody. Everybody is against you, it seems. Nobody allows you to be yourself, nobody gives you any freedom. You can be in this world, but you must imitate somebody.

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.