3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
3 December 2020 Voltaire He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
3 December 2020 Sydney Smith A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
3 December 2020 Robin Hayes Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
3 December 2020 Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.
3 December 2020 Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
3 December 2020 Campbell Scott Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
3 December 2020 John Keats Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
