Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Jack Ma

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right.

Demi Lovato

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Rumi

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Rumi

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Esther Hicks

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Oppression is the essence of power.

Luther Burbank

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Norman Mailer

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.