Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Lou Holtz

We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

Lou Holtz

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Lou Holtz

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

Lou Holtz

Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

Lord Chesterfield

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

Malcolm Fraser

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change....

Malcolm Fraser

At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Malcolm Gladwell

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Malala Yousafzai

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me, because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girls' education. And at that time I said that 'Why should I wait for someone else? Why should I be looking to the government? To the army, that they would help us? Why don't I raise I my voice? Why don't we speak out for our rights?

Malala Yousafzai

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Magic Johnson

I learned to give him the ball....

Major Owens

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Mahatma Gandhi

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Mahatma Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mahatma Gandhi

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Joe Torre

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Joe Lieberman

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Jimmy Carter

As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.

Jimmy Carter

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.