Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Brian Tracy

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

Cesar Chavez

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

Carroll Quigley

...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Al Capone

I have built my organization upon fear.

Arthur Blank

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Dennis Hastert

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Colin Powell

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

Colin Powell

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Annie Dillard

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Andy Stanley

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Andrew Vachss

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Thomas S. Monson

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Thomas Carlyle

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Steve Lawson

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.