Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al Ries

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

John Dewey

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

David Cross

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up.

Christopher Walken

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Cleo Moore

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Dan Maffei

I was a very, very good congressman.

David Levithan

I have become very good at clearing histories.

Barry Manilow

QVC has been very good to me.

James St. James

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.