Fun, Leaders, Boredom

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
~ Katharine Graham, American publisher

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who
do the right thing.
~ Warren Bennis

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
~ George Burns

Thinking, New Leader, Adventure

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is
dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up
call.
~ Warren Bennis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Leader or Manager, Excuses, Travel, Mothers

Leaders manage change. Managers control process.
~ Unknown

It's better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
~ George Washington

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~ St. Augustine, philosopher and theologian

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere
formality. It doesn't matter if you say yes or no. You're going to
get it anyway.
~ Erma Bombeck, American humorist (1927-1996)

One-Liner, Resentment, Enterprise

I've been in love with the same woman for 41 years. If my wife finds
out, she'll kill me.
~ Henny Youngman (1906-1998)
U.S. (English born) comedian - known as The King of the One-Liner;
stand-up routine included seldom-used violin.

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.
~ St. Augustine

Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a
businessman, and a son of a bitch.
~ Peter McArthur

Clarity, Discipline, Possibilities

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
~ Paul Saffo

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

You can do anything -- but not everything.
~ David Allen, productivity consultant

Honor, Success, Conscience

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the
reward for what he gave.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) U.S. entrepreneur - oil billionaire and art collector; took over father's oil company in 1930 and became a billionaire by 1968

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
~ "Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Change, no Respect, End of the Rope

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
~ Jane Goodall

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dignity of Life, Determination, Beautiful Solutions

What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
~ Kofi Annan (1938-) Ghanaian diplomat - seventh secretary-general of
the United Nations (1997-2006); awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2001

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
~ Anonymous

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Cup Overflowing, Healing, Creativity

It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup.
~ Anonymous

Time heals what reason cannot.
~ Seneca (5 BC-65 AD) (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger) Roman philosopher and statesman - a respected teacher who was eventually condemned for his high moral aims.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~ Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist

Storms, Millionaire, Irreverence

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
~ Stella Terrill Mann

I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
~ Mark Twain

Citizen Soldier, Chemicals, Values

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country.
~ George S. Patton Jr.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and
oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital
ingredient in beer.
~ Dave Barry

On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country.
~ Boy Scouts of America

Good Citizen, Education, Be Somebody

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
~ Aristotle (Etica Nicomaquea-Politica)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) U.S. journalist - editor and publisher of Forbes magazine; known for extravagant parties and colorful hobbies (hot-air ballooning and Faberge eggs).

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
~ Jane Wagner

Spring, Creativity, Patriotism

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
~ Robin Williams

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~ Dr. E. Land

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that
it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~ Hamilton Fish

Chance, Leadership Ideals, Future

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
~ Louis Pasteur

To lead others, embody their ideals!
~ Leonid S. Sukhorukov

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there.
~ Charles Kettering

Style, principle, progress

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from their ideas.
~ Deborah Neville

Lead, follow or get out of the way!
~ George S. Patton

Work, Adventure, Encouragement

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
~ François Marie Arouet Voltaire

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.
~ Edwin Hubble

Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out
of living.
~ Anonymous

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
~ William Osler

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~ Marcel Archard

Obfuscation, Forgiveness, Confusion

Be obscure clearly.
~ E. B. White

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
~ Tom Peters

Good idea, Arguments, False Knowledge

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~ Admiral Grace Hopper

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Oppression, Commerce, Vision

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) U.S. educator, born into slavery

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
~ Isaac Newton