Florence Nightingale Quotes

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

To inspire the British people we need to look different, sound different, and offer something new. I believe I can do that.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.