Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Lisa Bluder

Hopefully, the team used it as motivation throughout the summer,

Robert Collier

Mind is all that counts.

Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Richard P. Feynman

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

Ronaldinho

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Richard Dawkins

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.

William James

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Virgil

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Virgil

We can't all do everything.

Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

Time passes irrevocably.

Virgil

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.