famous leadership quotes

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Denis Waitely



Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind. ~Author Unknown



That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart



Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest



Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common



Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler



History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather



If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Henry Huxley



Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today. ~Author Unknown



I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922



Time goes, you say? Ah no!



Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud



Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican



Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. ~Andrew Carnegie



Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ~William Burroughs



Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca



Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare



Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato



If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott