Leading Quotes

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Forward, Moving, Down

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Leadership, Failure, Care

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela

Politics, Time, Busy

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama

Failure, America, Appreciate

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey

Amazing, May, Dangerous

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp

Life, Success, Work

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul

America, Play, Between

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Live, Another, Series

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylor

Men, Best, Dogs

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
Mitt Romney

Time, Sure, Create

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce

Nothing, Philosophy, Nowhere

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin

Stress, Reality, Touch

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Job, Second, Terrible

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Love, Place, Earth

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

Education, Best, Human

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Dead, Rest

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

Success, True, Sleep

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

Death, Through, Fashion

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jack Wagner

Stress, Reality, Touch

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo

Islam, Evil, Themselves

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Time, Getting

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White

Another, Limit, Account

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, War, Cannot

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
Pat Robertson

Truth, Someone, Mean

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine

Road, Flowers, Glory

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte

Nature, Another, Walk

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
Jeff Bridges

Men, Romantic, Everything

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Feeling, Storm, Teeth

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
Peter Singer

Pretty, Lives, Miserable

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