Top 975 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Leaders - Page 2

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

It takes two hands to clap.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

I am responsible only to God and history.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.

The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.

I am ashamed of my nation.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.