Strong Quotes

Strong convictions precede great actions.

~ James Freeman Clarke

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

~ Robin S. Sharma

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

~ Yitzhak Shamir

The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.

~ Bill Flores

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

~ David Suzuki

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

~ Ed Gillespie

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

~ Mark Mckinnon

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

~ Michael Bloomberg

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

~ Condoleezza Rice

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

~ Azim Premji

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

~ William Hague

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

~ Edgar Bronfman

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

~ Xavier Becerra

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

~ Ed Gillespie

President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.

~ David Mixner

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

~ John Thune

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

~ Thomas Menino

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

~ Jim Ramstad

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

~ Michael D. Higgins

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

~ Kumar Mangalam Birla

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

~ Ronnie Chan

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

~ Tipper Gore

The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

~ Barry Marshall

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

~ Mark Zandi

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

~ Mark Skousen

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

~ Anne Wojcicki

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

~ Grete Waitz

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

~ Charles Dickens

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

~ Mary Astell

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

~ William Blake

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

~ Whitney M. Young

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

~ Ben Bernanke

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

~ John Milius

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

~ Tony Randall

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

~ Donald Trump

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley