(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage… — Thomas J. Sergiovanni Copy Share Image
We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to… — Robert Chambers Copy Share Image
Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one.… — Lloyd Winter Copy Share Image
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day -… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die-to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I'm particularly keen on promoting this [Nikolai] Medtner piece, Night Wind, because I feel it is a fantastic work that hasn't been… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one… — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama's government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. — George Takei Copy Share Image
“If he is a worker, the ubiquitous fact of unemployment teaches him that the supply of labour is always greater than the… — Brealey & Myers Copy Share Image
Knowledge creates the demand. The more people know about it, the more people will be interested and demand for things to be… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have. — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with… — Origen Copy Share Image
Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image