Top 23 Quotes About African Leadership
#1. The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.
Mo Ibrahim
#2. What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations - they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized.
Duop Chak Wuol
#4. I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
Stephen Mangan
#5. An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
H. Rap Brown
#6. My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.
Jesse Ventura
#7. I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.
Rose McGowan
#8. I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.
Jeb Bush
#9. Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
Ali A. Mazrui
#10. For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
Bruce Beresford
#11. The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
#13. I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
Jung Chang
#14. I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#16. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#17. There's a thin line baby. A thing line between love and hate. -Cage York
Abbi Glines
#18. Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is
Joe Abercrombie
#19. In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#20. The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.
Lady Bird Johnson
#21. It is hard for people to understand helping someone if you having nothing to gain.
Sarah Holman
#22. For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
Ann Cotton
#23. My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
John W. Rogers Jr.
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