Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

Scott Pelley

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

Scott McNealy

Get the best people and train them well.

Li Peng

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Michael Dell

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

Chris Johnson

Each time, the team that's won had a quick start. We got the lead right away at our place, and, at their place, they got the lead right away.

Dr. Travis has been a local and national leader in West Nile surveillance.

Erin is one of our most vocal leaders, even though she's actually a pretty quiet girl.

Every time they'd make a run, we'd make a play and they couldn't ever get the lead under six - which was nice for my heart.

Excluding lead paint, the underlying fundamental story here is just tremendous.

There's really an over supply of biotech offerings. That sector has been leading the offerings and it's been a poor year for biotech.

Don't look at the people of any particular organization as the leaders. Look at yourself as the leaders.

We think that she's going to be a big leader for us.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

We had our opportunities. We had the lead and they got back into the game.

We do not want to provoke a frontal confrontation between the students and the military because if that happens, the whole society loses because it would only lead to more anarchical violence.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are trying to lead our people to a just peace and to security, and we want to pave the way for the next generations.

We're going to turn Nicodemus loose pretty much this whole season with the opportunity to win races, not necessarily to lead the pack or be a pack runner.

Bill Bradley

vision for American leadership in the 21st Century.

Hines Ward

We feel like we can do whatever we have to do, and whenever we have to do it, to win. But there's not a lot of mystery to how we like to play. Get a lead and run the football.

Robert Kiyosaki

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Robert Kiyosaki

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Robert Kiyosaki

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.