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May you find great value in these Acclaimed quotes and sayings.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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