top of page
All Quotes Collection

"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
Time,
210

"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
192

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
209

"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
129

"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
200


"I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians."
179


"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."
177


"For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
555


"Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail."
167

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know."
15


"The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity."
23


"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"
28


"An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision."
38


"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."
27


"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
32


"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
28


"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
28


"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
28


"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
85


"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch."
45


"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
46


"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
51


"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
46


"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis."
40


"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
48


"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
51


"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
39


"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
36


"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."
45
bottom of page