Quotes of: Religious-leaders Keyword

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Stephen Kinzer

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a lead...

Hakeem Olajuwon

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Alan Greenspan

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Amit Kalantri

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Azim Premji

A leader is a planter—a planter of ideas, seeds of change, and a vision for justice

Artika Tyner

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

Artika Tyner

Many men may see the King in a Kid but it takes a true leader to nurture it

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.

Unarine Ramaru

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

Warren Farrell

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Mo Ibrahim

All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing “Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be relig...

The Catcher in the Rye

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The great cathedrals of the Middle Ages were her dwelli...

Civilisation

It is the voice of everyday people, rather than of a self-conscious 'artist', that we hear in Caedmon's Hymn, and in such texts as Deor's Lament (also known simply as Deor) or The Seafarer. These reflect ordinary human experience and are told in the ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and affections of the mind; and in steadfastly and freely exerting and following good affections and d...

The Religious Affections

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more grace he has, and the more this is opened to view, the greater sense he has ...

The Religious Affections

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised...

The Religious Affections

The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is now oppressing religious rights. It has been a slow train rumbling down the track of destruction since the 1960's. It s...

Donovan's Law

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

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