Top 1200 Wise Leaders Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Good leaders are focused, directive, and inspiring... in other words, purposeful. People want to look up to leaders, not because they think they are better than us, but because good leaders provide us with a sense of purpose that inspires us to do better.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

What hurts the GOP is when we have leaders placing the blame on other leaders within the party.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.