Silent
leges inter arma." (During war, the laws are silent.)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Pro Milone 11)
An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written
on.
- S. Goldwyn
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to
decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost
No man is above the law and no man below it.
- Theodore
Roosevelt
Quaedam iura non scripta sed
omnibus scriptis certiora sunt. (Some laws are unwritten but they are better
established than all written ones.)
- Seneca Rhetor
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis
Example
is leadership.
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
If
you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav proverb
The
business of leaders, of heroes, is tricky.
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your
teeth. Leadership is unlocking
people’s potential to become better.
- Bill Bradley, Former U.S. Senator
To
know how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor;
To be able to tell others is the accomplishment of the teacher;
To inspire others to do better work is the accomplishment of management;
To be able to do all three is the accomplishment of leadership.
- Guy Furguson
In order to have a winner, the team must have a
feeling of unity; every player must put the team first—ahead of personal
glory.
- Paul Bear
Bryant
Outstanding
leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
- Sam Walton (1918-1992), founder, Wal-Mart
Never
seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden.
Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are
asked.
- Lord Chesterfield
Every
man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the curious
will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Eugene S. Wilson
There
are few concepts so difficult that they do not yield to the repeated attack of
the ordinary mind.
- Helen Boyden, educator
Let
your letter be written as accurately as you are able—I mean as to language,
grammar, and stops; but as to the matter of it the less trouble you give
yourself the better it will be. Letters
should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send just what
we would say if we were with them.
- Lord Chesterfield
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must
outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than
the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle—when the sun comes
up, you'd better be running.
- Unknown
Life
is a constant struggle. It is the
story of how each person copes with the difficulties and challenges which arise.
It is important to work hard, have faith, patience, and persevere in
overcoming odds. It is important to
build relationships on the principles of love, loyalty, and honor.
Life, for me, is about giving. If
by one small act I can make someone happy, it brightens up my day.
It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
- The Rose by Amanda McBroom, sung by Bette Midler
Be
sincere. Be simple in words,
manners and gestures. Amuse as well
as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make
him like and believe you.
- Alfred Emanuel Smith
Do
you want to make friends? Be
friendly. Forget yourself. . . .
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Consider
well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
- Horace
When
we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
- French proverb
When
people talk, listen completely. Most
people never listen.
- Earnest Hemingway
It
takes a great man to be a good listener.
- Calvin Coolidge
Listening
is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and
we want to sit in their radius. When
we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
- Karl Menninger (1893-1990), psychiatrist
I
think it's a pretty good rule not to tell what a thing is about until it is
finished. If you do you always seem
to lose some of it. It never quite
belongs to you so much again.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Despise
not small things, either for evil or good, for a look may work thy ruin, or a
word create thy wealth. A spark is
a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Do
well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking
to be done.
- Persian proverb
Don't
be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves.
It’s
the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation
makes the operation first-class.
- J. Willard Marriott (1900-1985) founder, Marriott Corporation
I
studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and
women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with
everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd
U.S. President
The
best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes
to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature.
- Anne Frank
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther
King
If
you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever.
If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with.
- Anonymous
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction
that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
Tell
me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
You,
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection.
-
Buddha
'Tis
better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, line 27, stanza 4
Neither
a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the
making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who,
being loved, is poor?
- Oscar
Wilde
The
most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother
Teresa
Love
is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest
imaginable.
-
Mahatma Gandhi
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain
empties.
-
Jules Renard
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand
Love looks not with
the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I; [Helena]
The hunger for love
is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Theresa
One word frees us
all of the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
- Sophocles (c. 496-405 B.C.), Playwright
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their
conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it
cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a
moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
- Barbara De Angelis
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a
woman’s heart.
- Proverb from Holland
Immature love says "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
The
ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes
not only others but ourselves as well.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love
doesn't sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the
time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, writer
Absence
diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the
candle and blows up the bonfire.
- François de La Rouchefoucauld
It
is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering
courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity
is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even
generations.
- Khalil Gibran
Love
is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal
never goes unpunished.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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