Political and Motivational Quotes

    Political and Motivational Quotes


    Do not follow where the path may lead.
    Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    Harold R. McAlindon
    (also attributed to Emerson and others)


    Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    There go the people.
    I must follow them for I am their leader.
    Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

    What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

    A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    General Douglas MacArthur

    The real leader has no need to lead--
    he is content to point the way.
    Henry Miller

    Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
    Lao Tzu

    A leader is a dealer in hope.
    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
    Noah Porter

    If your actions inspire others to dream more,
    learn more, do more and become more,
    you are a leader.
    John Quincy Adams

    He who has never learned to obey
    cannot be a good commander.
    Aristotle

    The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    (from Christian Leadership World)

    Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
    Publilius Syrus

    A leader is a dealer in hope.
    Napoleon Bonaparte


    Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
    George Patton
    (from Big Dog's Quotes)

    Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    Proverbs 29:18

    Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
    Horace

    In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
    Henry W. Longfellow

    I light my candle from their torches.
    Robert Burton

    Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
    Woodrow Wilson

    The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
    Publius Syrus

    A bold onset is half the battle.
    Giuseppe Garibaldi

    The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
    Cornelius Nepos

    To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
    James Thomas

    Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
    Edmund Spenser

    He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
    Solon

    When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
    Napoleon Bonaparte

    No man can stand on top because he is put there.
    H. H. Vreeland

    A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
    Ovid

    It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
    Seneca

    No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
    Abraham Lincoln

    What you cannot enforce /
    Do not command.
    Sophocles

    No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
    Philip Armour

    To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
    Friedrich Nietzsche


    It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
    Latin Proverb

    Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
    Thomas Carlyle

    A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
    Polybius

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    Motivational Quotations

    It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Take calculated risks.
    That is quite different from being rash.
    George S. Patton

    If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
    St. Clement of Alexandra

    We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson



    Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
    Thornton Wilder

    The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
    Arthur C. Clarke

    Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder

    We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
    is not an act but a habit.
    Aristotle

    Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
    Voltaire

    If the wind will not serve,
    take to the oars.
    Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
    Latin Proverb

    Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
    Henry Ward Beecher

    You cannot plough a field by
    turning it over in your mind.
    Author Unknown

    The best way out is always through.
    Robert Frost

    Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
    William B. Sprague

    Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
    Samuel Johnson

    Fortune favors the brave.
    Publius Terence

    When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

    He who hesitates is lost.
    Proverb

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
    Albert Einstein

    Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
    Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    We are still masters of our fate.
    We are still captains of our souls.
    Winston Churchill

    Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    For hope is but the dream
    of those that wake.
    Matthew Prior

    Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
    Lucretius

    Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
    a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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