Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

You may judge for yourselves, without partiality, whether I have not sacrificed my life, my being, every minute of my time in order to make a nation of you.

apolitical movement is always influenced by its leader’s personality.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'

Klopp is a coach with a lot of charisma.

Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.

I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.

To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.