Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Guest

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

Benjamin Franklin

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

Benjamin Franklin

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

Barbara Walters

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

bell hooks

I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Dianne Feinstein

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Abraham Lincoln

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Abraham Lincoln

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Jim Cramer

The place had lost its way, the leadership had lost its way and it was a very unfortunate thing.

There are people who see us as the leadership in this city. They feel we have the integrity.

Kyrie Irving

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.