Great Quotes From Great Leaders

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
Tony Dundy

Alone we can do so little; together we can so much.

Helen Keller

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul valery

Don't go around saying the world owes a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch

The team with the best players wins.

Jack Welch

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
Tony Dundy

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understand the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it's only when
you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

The more I know I know, I know the less.

Robert Owen

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Thomas Fuller

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self esteem, and personal
satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution,
you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originate in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertoli Brecht

The greatest injustice is using the law to keep justice at bay.

Scott Adams

The pen is brighter than the sword.

Edward bulwer Lytton

Optimist is the faith leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
We've made our share mistake, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if
]you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority
of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein

I am the one who's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

Men do not shape destiny, destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel Castro

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Sun-IZU

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Europe was created history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

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You can't tell a book by its cover.
Bo Diddley

If you're walking down the right path and you're to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

They are talking about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are complain or to look
ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.
Tony Dungy

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The future is here, it is just not wisely distributed.

William Gibson

Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Albert Einstein

The only things that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Eugene McCarthy

It's about the journey-mine and yours- and the lives we can tough, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.
Tony Dungy

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of
making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. Vision will ignite the fire of passion that fuels
our commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve excellence. Only vision allows us transform dreams of greatness into the reality of
achievement through human action. Vision has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our vision is what we become in life.
Tony Dungy

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become
unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination

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Albert Einstein

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
he has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
An appear is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried
Winston Churchill

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep
from meddling with them while they do it.
No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.
Teddy Roosevelt

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "here lived a
great street sweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther king, JR.

Money is not the answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

Our greatest glory is not in ever falling, but in getting up every time we do.
Confucius

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

There is not liberal America and a conservative America- there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a
White America and Latino America and Asian America-there is the United States of America.
Barack Obama

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffet

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology- the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Robert Pirsig

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where
the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

You only to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffet

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

Without music, life would be a mistake

Nietzsche

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forget Injuries, never forget kindnesses

Confucius

If you don't like something, change it. if you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

Try not to become a man of success, a man of value.

Albert Einstein

It's not weather you get knocked down; it's weather you get up.
Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing

Vince Lombardi

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren buffet

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change
that we seek.
Barack Obama

Nature does nothing uselessly

Aristotle

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

If you want something said, ask a man ; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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Margaret Thatcher

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Chinese Guru Laozi

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

We are each us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Luciano De Crescenzo

You have to know the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius- and a lot of courage to move in the
opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

Whenever I get a little money I buy books; if any is left over, I buy food and clothing.
Desirerius Erasmus

I think of hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with freedom.
Bob Dylan

A revolution is not a bed of roses

Fidel Castro

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
There is no use whatsoever trying to help who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing
to climb himself.
Dale Carnegie

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S. Truman

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger

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To be prepare for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

G.K. Chesterton

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

It is possible to fail in many ways... While to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is
to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has
overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Always do more than is required of you.

Georges S. Patton JR.

A few quotes from the book:

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ~ Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford (18631947)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa (1910
1997)
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail. ~ Winston Churchill (18741965)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather in a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi (19131970)
All the adversity Ive had in my life, all my troubles have strengthened meYou may not realize it when it
happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney (19011966)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884
1962)

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
(18691948)
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will eventually triumph. And there is purpose and
worth to each and every life. ~ Ronald Reagan (19112004)
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. ~ John F. Kennedy
(19171963)
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray Kroc (19021984)
The time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968)
There are two ways of exerting ones strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ~ Booker T.
Washington (18561915)

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