Leadership Quotes, page 37

“What an excellent horse they lose for want of address and boldness to manage him! I could manage this horse better than others do.”

“I am in the land of leonine, brave people, where every foot of ground is like a well of steel confronting my soldiers. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.”

“Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your other virtues?”

“At Achilles' tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!”

“I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.”

“The best prophet is he who guesses well.”

“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than whom. Be not for or against.”

“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.”

“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”

“The first rule of business is: Do other men, for they would do you.”

“Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the person who is so fond of listening that they wish to hear not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.”

“When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.”

“Quadruped lions are said to be savage only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”

“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”

“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.”

“Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.”

“To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to facts, sir.”

“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”

“You know why we're a good partnership, Forrest? 'Cause we watch out for one another.”