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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Values Government Political
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,
than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
I have been driven many times to my knees
by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go.
My own wisdom, and that of all about me,
seemed insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
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