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Famous Quotes about Leadership

Grim Cris — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:52:25 +0000

1. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

2. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

3. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

4. A leader is a dealer in hope.

5. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

6. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

7. To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg.

8. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

9. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

10. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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Trust yourself

Grim Cris — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:31:37 +0000

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock

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Best Quotes by Famous People

Grim Cris — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:31:43 +0000

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. -Samuel Johnson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Alva Edison

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Seneca

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning – Aristotle Onassis

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M.K. Gandhi

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.- Mark Twain

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say i- Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. – G.B. Shaw

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Helen Keller Famous Quotes

Grim Cris — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:15:12 +0000

‘Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’

‘We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.’

‘Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’

‘Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.’

‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.’

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Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta Famous Quotes

Grim Cris — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:44:08 +0000

‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.’

‘Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.’

‘You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes

Grim Cris — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:40:38 +0000

‘The time is always right to do right’ – “The 100 Best Things Ever Said by Men” in South Africa’s Men’s Health magazine,

‘After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.’

‘Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?’

‘For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.’

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Famous quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Grim Cris — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:38:20 +0000

‘All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.’

‘Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.’

‘Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.’

‘If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.’

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You will not be punished for your anger

Grim Cris — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:00:40 +0000

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. – Buddha

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Japanese Proverb Quotes

Grim Cris — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:06:18 +0000

Proverbs are one of the best things our planet owns. Let me share with you some wonderful Japanese Proverb Quotes. And in the end, tell me what’s your favorite. Thank you!

“Your smile determines how you see and think about the world around you.”

“He who listens well, speaks well.”

“We do not smile because something good has happened; rather something good happens because we smile.”

“Your smile is your heart’s accessory. What kind of smile will you wear today?”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Your smile is your life force.”

“One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.”

“The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.”

“Beginning is easy – continuing hard.”

“He is poor who does not feel content.”

“If you smile you can change yourself, others and your future.”

“The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

“Money grows on the tree of persistence.”

“To teach is to learn.”

“Virtue is not knowing but doing.”

“One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars.”

“It is better to be ignorant than mistaken.”

“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

“We are no more than candles burning in the wind.”

“If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.”

“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”

“When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.”

“Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why there is an eraser on every pencil.”

“He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.”

“Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.”

“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”

“Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.”

“If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.”

“Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?”

“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted.”

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Vagabonding and Travel Quotes

Grim Cris — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:01:47 +0000

Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu

He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey

My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau

Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer

Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. – Rudyard Kipling

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran

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