….. to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. No man can stand prominence these days….. it is the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
– F Scott Fitzgerald
…… in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
– Publilus Syrus
……. leads the way all the rest follow.
– Chinese Proverb
real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
– Doris Lessing
…… in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
– Napoleon Hill
….. build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
……. is largely invisible.
– Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson
…….. and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
……. 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
……. troublesome humour some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho’ other ways very desirable.
– William Penn
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