Top 975 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Leaders - Page 16

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.

Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.