Quotes
- Leadership Quotes
- Integrity Quotes
- Innovation Quotes
- Immagination Quotes
- Success Quotes
- Courage Quotes
- Views of Life Quotes
Leadership Quotes
"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon Bonaparte, French soldier, statesman, revolutionary (1769-1821)
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Kenneth Blanchard, US management author, presenter (b.1939)
"The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility." Benjamin Zander, British conductor, management presenter (b.1939)
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." Rosalynn Carter, US First Lady (b.1927)
"You manage things, you lead people." Admiral Grace Murray Hooper, US naval officer (1906-1992)
"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it." Captain James T. Kirk, character in 'Star Trek'
"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers, US actor, humorist (1879-1935)
"A leader is best When people barely know that he exists, Not so good when people obey and acclaim him, Worst when they despise him. 'Fail to honour people' They fail to honour you.' But of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'" Lao Tzu, Chinese founder of Taoism, author (6th Century BC)
Integrity Quotes
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." Jimmy Carter , US President (b.1924)
"Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain, US author (1835-1910)
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724-1804)
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British author (1857-1924)
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." Thomas Babington Macaulay, British historian, essayist (1800-1859)
"Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking." JC Watts, US congressman (b.1957)
"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, US civil rights leader (1929-1968)
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist (1870-1937)
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." Groucho Marx, US comic actor (1890-1977)
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue." Winston Churchill
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it." Doug Larson
"The truth will ouch." Arnold H. Glasow
Innovation Quotes
"Always remember that someone, somewhere is making a product that will make your product obsolete." Georges Doriot , US executive (1899-1987)
"Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present." Peter Drucker, US management author (b.1909)
"We should do something when people say it is crazy. If people say something is 'good' it means someone else is already doing it." Hajime Mitarai, Japanese electronics executive (1938-1995)
"Originality is something we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with." Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian (1795-1881)
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planck, German physicist (1858-1947)
"Invention is the mother of necessity." Thorstein Veblen, US economist, social scientist (1857-1929)
"My father worked for the same firm for twelve years. They fired him. They replaced him with a tiny gadget this big. It does everything my father does, only it does it much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one." Woody Allen, US comic actor, director (b.1935)
"Ignorance isn't not knowing, but not wanting to know." Werner Mitsch)
"Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring and devilishly hard to make". Rushworth M. Kidder)
"Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear." Donald E. Westlake)
"The true delight is in the finding out, rather than in the knowing." Isaac Asimov)
Imagination Quotes
"Imagination rules the world." Napoleon Bonaparte, French soldier, statesman, revolutionary (1769-1821)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein, German physicist (1879-1955)
"Everything you can imagine is real." Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973)
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing with him the image of a cathedral." Antoine Saint De Exupery, French author, aviator (1900-1944)
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." Muhammad Ali, US boxer (b.1942)
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." Ralph Gerard, US psychologist, author
"Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination." Bill Gates, US computer engineer, entrepreneur (b.1955)
"Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is." Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, poet (1854-1900)
Success Quotes
"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." Sam Ewing
Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb
Courage Quotes
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.Anonymous
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." Ralph W. Sockman
Views of life Quotes
"Life is great--I wouldn't know what I'd do without it." Alan Alda
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi
"High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton
"You have given your life to become the person you are today. Was it worth it?" Richard Bach
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." John Lennon
"The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have." Leonard Nimoy
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else." Will Rogers
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." Robert A. Heinlein
"He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough." Herbert von Karajan