Top 975 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Leaders - Page 14

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

Seek truth from facts.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.