Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

Vladimir Lenin

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Neal Shusterman

Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

Jose Marti

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Karl Marx

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Kofi Annan

I think it is important that the leaders stay the course.

Myles Munroe

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Stan Orzel

He obviously was the offensive leader of the team. He had a lot of speed and he was strong in the middle. He was one of the better two-way players around.

Clinton Portis

Having that one losing season made me take on more of a leadership role,

Jeff Gaucher

Her senior leadership has really made a difference. She has the mentality that she's going to get her points. She's going to do what she has to.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

William Jennings Bryan

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Wilhelm Keitel

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Walter Scott

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Wendell Phillips

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.