Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Gropius

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

Yitzhak Shamir

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

Yogi Berra

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Winston Churchill

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Winston Churchill

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Winston Churchill

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Winston Churchill

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Winston Churchill

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Winston Churchill

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Winston Churchill

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

Winston Churchill

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Rick Warren

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Tracy Austin

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Vince Lombardi

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Vince Lombardi

A man is known by the company he owns.

Vince Lombardi

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are not born, they're made.