Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Baden-Powell

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Richard M. Nixon

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

Richard M. Nixon

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Rebecca Taylor

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

Richard Rohr

Transformed people transform people.

Richard Dawkins

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

Vince Lombardi

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Samuel Johnson

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Samuel Johnson

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Samuel Johnson

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Rowan Williams

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Robert Hughes

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Robert Hughes

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

Robert Southey

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Virgil

Each man is led by his own liking.

William Howard Taft

Politics make me sick

Willa Cather

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Warren Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Warren Buffett

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

Wayne Dyer

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

William Blake

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?