Lawyers - Quotes

A countryman between two Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats. - Benjamin Franklin

A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased. - John R. Beard

A lawyer is an odd sort of fish, first rotten, then green, then ripe. - Robert Christy

Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated has the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination, and the victims of racial violence?... Lawyers are the simple yet essential means by which people seek to vindicate their rights and we must not foreclose that means. - John Curtin

As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. - Abraham Lincoln

As to the essentials of a good lawyer, I have some very definite convictions. He should have a keen sense of right and wrong and a firm belief in basic moral values. I would hate to trust the welfare or protection of the life or property of any of my clients to a lawyer who had no respect for moral values, or one who had a callous indifference as to what was basically right and wrong. - Joseph T. Karcher

At the most pragmatic level, lawyers are society's professional problem solvers. Lawyers are called upon to make distinctions, to explain how and why cases or experiences are alike or different. Lawyers are expected to restore equilibrium, to be balancers. Every discipline, every profession, every job, and every calling has a cutting edge. At that cutting edge, lines are drawn. Lawyers and judges are society's ultimate line drawers. On one side of the line, the conduct, action, or inaction is proper; on the other side of the line, it is not. - Rennard Strickland & Frank T. Read

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. - Felix G. Rohatyn

Good trial lawyers are like writers with heavily plotted stories and sharply defined characters. They lay out each detail precisely to create an illusion of seamless inevitability, leaving no room for doubt, not possibility for an alternate ending. - Elyssa East

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. - Charles Lamb

He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. - J. Hunter

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby – not even money, certainly not my soul. - Mahatma Gandhi

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim. - Samuel Johnson

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade. - Charles Caleb Colton

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day. - Fred Rodell

It does seem asinine to tolerate a system under which the lawyers always win, whether heads or tails come up. - Frank Cramer

It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. - Moses Crowell

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. - Lamartine

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W. Ouseley

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus, all practicing lawyers – and most others in the profession – will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. - Alan Dershowitz

Lawyer even sounds like liar. - Walter Mosley

Lawyers are a bad lot.... They cheat their living out of honest people. - Albert R. Carman

Lawyers are doubters, skeptics; not in a bad sense. But they never know anything absolutely and utterly without qualifications or modifications. - G. N. Tillman

Lawyers are ideological enemies of informal justice. - Richard L Abel

Lawyers are like catfish. A nibble here, a nibble there ... before you know it the principal's gone, you've got a pile of bills, and not much else. - Meredith Blevins

Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others. - Robin Ellison

Lawyers are like doctors. They've each a secret language of their own so that if you get a letter from one lawyer you've got to take it to another to get it read, just like a doctor sends you to a chemist with a rigmarole that no one else can read, so they can charge you what they like for a drop of coloured water. - Harold Brighhouse

Lawyers are like foxes, small and innocuous, but all the time stealthily sniffing the air. - Michael O’Sullivan

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. - John Gierach

Lawyers are like painters – once they get into a house, you never know when you will get rid of them again. - Peter Anderson Graham

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over. - Robert Whitlow

Lawyers are like rabbits. They have a nasty habit of multiplying. - Leo Reilly

Lawyers are like scissors; they never cut each other, but what is between them. - Unknown

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

Lawyers are like unrequited lovers – you give them an inch, and they go for the whole nine yards; you take off one shoe, and they pull down your pants. - Andres Rueda

Lawyers are like wine – you can pay a lot of money for a fancy bottle that tastes like vinegar, or you can find a good deal that fits your budget and your palate alike. - Karen A. Covy

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Robert Christy

Lawyers are men who will swear black is white – if they are paid for it. - Edward Counsel

Lawyers are natural politicians. - Clarence Darrow

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass. - Jane Bryant Quinn

Lawyers are perceived by some to matriculate in a realm, if not of their own making, then at least of their own maintenance, in which the secrets of power over the political and legal machinery are reserved, protected, and ultimately manipulated for their own advantage and to the detriment and divestment of others. - Walter Bennett

Lawyers are seldom loved but often needed. - Robert B. McKay

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. - Charles Dickens

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. - Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers generally know too much of law to have a very clear perception of justice. - Eliza Cook

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there were no lawyers. - Ken Alstad

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way, this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational responses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman. - Thane Rosenbaum

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. - Lord Bolingbroke

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. - Jodi Picoult

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. - James Alan Gardner

Most of the dishonest lawyers are the product of dishonest clients – the demand creates the supply. - Morris Salem

Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. - Lani Guinier

Never enter into an argument with a lawyer, for, of necessity, it is time lost; not that lawyers are fools – far from it – but that their intellects are concentrated in the endeavour to make sophistries pass for truths. - Charles William Day

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. - Sinclair Lewis

Ours is a culture dominated by experts, experts who profess to assist the rest of us, but who often instead make us their victim. Among those experts whom we are often victimized the most notable are perhaps the lawyers. If you as a plain person take yourself to be wronged and you wish to achieve redress, or if you are falsely accused and you wish to avoid unjust punishment, or if you need to negotiate some agreement with others in order to launch some enterprise, you will characteristically find yourself compelled to put yourself into the hands of lawyers – lawyers who will proceed to represent you by words that are often not in fact yours, who will utter in your name documents that it would never have occurred to you to utter, and you will behave ostensibly on your behalf in ways that may well be repugnant to you, so guiding you through processes whose complexity seems to have as a central function to make it impossible for plain persons to do without lawyers. - Alasdair Macintyre

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. - Will Rogers

People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with. - Deborah Ross

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers. - C. J. Cherryh

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve. - Thane Rosenbaum

Some lawyers are like unto the camel, which, before drinking out of a brook, maketh the water turbid with his foot. - Adolphus William Ward

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. - David Berg

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees. - Clarence Darrow

The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict. - G. Christopher Ritter

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. - Henry George Bohn

The most successful trial lawyers are often master storytellers, making their cases come to life for their jurors. The reason is that stories matter ... stories are the deepest and most obvious way that humans organize, communicate, receive, and digest facts. - G. Christopher Ritter

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. - Robert H. Jackson

The only secret that the lawyer really possesses about the law is that no one can ever be certain of what the law is.... The lawyer is accustomed to the ways of bending and changing rules to suit his (or his client's) purposes, to dance in the shadows of the law's ambiguities. Rules hold no particular terror for the lawyer, just as the sight of blood holds no terror for the surgeon. Because he operates a system of rules, the lawyer becomes indifferent to them in the way that a doctor becomes indifferent to the humanity of the body that is lying on the operating table. - Jethro Lieberman

The question arises ... whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. - Florynce R. Kennedy

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief. Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave. - Abraham Lincol

We don't operate a system that guarantees a trial lawyer will really know what he or she is doing before handling a trial. Qualify as an attorney and you immediately have the right to screw up somebody's case in court. We lawyers have been left with a huge field in which to demonstrate our incompetence. - Keith Evans

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. - Charles Dickens

When the monetary damages are smaller, lawyers will find themselves less zealous in their pursuit of what they call justice. - Dean O’Hara

Where there's a will, there's a lawyer. - Robert Elliott

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honour consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. - David Graham Philips

Procrastination - Quotes

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. - Hunter S. Thompson

Delay always breeds danger. - Miguel de Cervantes

Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. - Christopher Parker

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. - Wayne Dyer

Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin. - Victor Kiam

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters. - Pandora Poikilos

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. - Charles Dickens

Procrastination will be overcome when you take little steps toward the goal. With each step you gain momentum, and with consistency, you will be crossing the finish line before you know it. - Unknown

The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. - Henry Wheeler Shaw

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. - Norman Vincent Peale

There is no avoidance in delay. - Aeschylus

What is deferred is not avoided. - Thomas More

Laziness - Quotes

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and second-rate friends. - Cyril Connolly

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. - Horace

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. - William Hales

Laziness is the enemy of virtue, and the very train of all wickedness. - Patrick Fleming

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. - La Rochefoucauld

The lazy are always wanting to do something. - Luc de Clapiers

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work. - Evan Esar

The path of laziness is the straightest of all paths to want and woe. - Forbes

You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are. - Ken Christian

Miseries - Quotes

A little misery sweetens existence. It is the salt that makes it palatable and wholesome. - Eliza Cook

A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. - Unknown

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. - Joseph Addison

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. - Pascal

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another. - Philip Roth

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery. - Bertrand Russell

From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then – we went on dancing. - Doris Lessing

Give it all you got until you’re put out of your misery. - Aerosmith 

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery. - Anne Frank

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become. - Leonardo da Vinci

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. - Albert Schweitzer

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - C. S. Lewis

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion. - John Lyly

It has been well observed that the misery of a man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Misery is a communicable disease. - Unknown

Misery knows none but equals. - Paul Hervieu

Misery loves company. - John Ray

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others. - John Kendrick Bangs

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. - Russell Baker

Misery's fine – as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. - Arthur Adamov

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. - Dr. Robert Anthony

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.  - Letitia Landon

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cythina Nelms

Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. - Herodotus

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. - Rudyard Kipling

The great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. - Benjamin Franklin

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw

There are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse. - Cormac McCarthy

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. - Victor Hugo

There is no people so miserable, but that at some time or other, in some respect or other, they have reason to account themselves happy. And if they would but duly consider how it is with many of their neighbours, they would find it their duty to be thankful, that it is no worse with themselves; for it is some relief to the unfortunate to show them that there are others yet more miserable. - Wellins Calcott

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson. - Arthur Lynch

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. - Virginia Woolf

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman. - Hugh Blair

We are apt to measure the happiness or misery of the world by that portion of either which has fallen to our lot. - Norman MacDonald

We generally fancy ourselves more miserable than we are, for want of taking a true estimate of things; wherefore we fly into transports without reason, and judge of the happiness or calamity of human life, by false lights. - Wellins Calcott

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. - Thomas H. Huxley

Misfortunes - Quotes

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness. - Aesop

As the dog runneth after him that flees, but flees him that standeth still; so misfortune pursueth those that flee from her, but flees those that face her. - Ivan Panin

As the worm crawleth up to the surface only when it rains, so doth a man's best self emerge only in misfortune. - Ivan Panin

Cease to anticipate misfortune – there are still many chances of escape. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time. - Viramma Racine

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. - Norman MacDonald

Everybody has their days of misfortune. - Louisa May Alcott

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. - Euripides

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates

In the greatest misfortune oft lies the greatest hope. - Edward Counsel

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. - Publilius Syrus

It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles. - Andre Maurois

It is time enough to bear a misfortune when it comes, without anticipating it; for why should we torment ourselves with what may fall out, perhaps, twenty years hence, or never. - Wellins Calcott

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. - Kirby Larson

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success – Don’t Panic! Do your best and forget the consequences. - Walt Alston

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it. - Andre Gide

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. - Unknown

Misfortunes never come singly. - Unknown

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. - Seneca

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. - Aristophanes

Only he has a right to complain of undeserved misfortune, that is unwilling to accept undeserved good fortune. - Ivan Panin

Since misfortunes cannot be avoided, let them be generously borne; it is not for any sort of men to expect an exemption from the common lot of mankind; and no person is truly great, but he that keeps up the same dignity of mind in all conditions. - Wellins Calcott

Some people think that all the world should share their misfortunes, though they do not share in the sufferings of any one else. - A. Poincelot 

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. - Ivan Panin

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. - Miguel de Cervantes

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. - Elizabeth Gaskell

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself! - Gustave Flaubert

Quote Worthy

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. - Hannah More 

It’s the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance; It’s the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance; And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live. - Bette Midler

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. - Bernard Meltzer

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses, on your powers, instead of your problems. - Paul J. Meyer

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. - Epictetus

Leaders - Quotes

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm. - Herbert N. Casson

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

A good leader can inspire others at the workplace even when he wakes up not feeling inspired that morning. They change themselves internally to meet their calling and fulfil their responsibilities as a leader. - Unknown

A good leader makes a good follower. - Bion 

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them. - Marilyn vos Savant

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. - Nelson Mandela

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. - Ralph Lauren

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

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see. - Leroy Eimes

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. - Beth Revis

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. - James Callaghan

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. - Hans Finzel

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. - David Gergen

A lot of leaders tend to make popular decisions rather then effective ones. These are ‘nice’ leaders – not ‘effective’ leaders. - Unknown

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. - Brandon Sanderson

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. - Joe Dimaggio

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive. - John William Gardner

A real leader faces the music, even when he does not like the tune. - Unknown

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. - Charles De Gaulle

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. - John Kenneth Galbraith

An effective leader is a person who is respected for his stand; not popularity with the masses. - Unknown

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. - John C. Maxwell

Are you the leader who provides people ropes to hang themselves; or one who gives out ropes to lead people to safety and happiness. - Unknown

As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat. - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel. - David Gergan

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. - Brian Tracy

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. - Colin Powell

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written. - Dan Simmons

Everyone in a way is a leader. Some lead you to success; others will lead you to despair. Choose your leader wisely and be a wise leader if you are one. - Unknown

Good leaders make people feel that they are at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centred and that gives their work meaning. - Warren Bennis

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff. - Colin Power

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. -  Colin Powell

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. - John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself. Leadership without love degenerates into self-serving manipulation. - Rick Warren

Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope. - Rick Warren

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. - Aristotle

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly. - Nelson Mandela

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller

If you want to be a leader, understand that you are a natural focal point for attack of every kind. Accepting this reality will alleviate you from the feeling of being ‘unfairly’ treated by the masses you serve. - Unknown

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. - Dolly Parton

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes. - John Erskine

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. - James H. Boren

It often happens that less depends upon the valour of an army than the skill of the leader. - Aristophanes

Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - General George Patton

Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them. - John Baldoni

Leaders are expected to look into the future, to gaze across the time horizon and communicate to us what they see. It's not about being prescient or clairvoyant. It's about being discerning and perceptive. It's about noticing what's around the corner. - James M Kouzes & Barry Posner

Leaders don’t force people to follow. They invite them on a journey. - Unknown

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. - Warren G. Bennis

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. - John C. Maxwell

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand. - John C. Maxwell

Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. - Andy Stanley

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people. - S. M. Stirling

Life is the leader's laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That's the leader's mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same. - James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie

One measure of leadership is the calibre of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold Glasgow

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. - Sam Walton

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C. Maxwell

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines – limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while colouring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines. - John C. Maxwell

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. - Unknown

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. - Reed Markham

The best leaders turn their followers into leaders, realizing that the journey ahead requires many guides. - James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

The best managers and leaders are those who can carve out the excellence in the ordinary people they lead and manage. - Unknown

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ - a leader says, ‘Let's go!’ - E. M. Kelly

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. - Max de Pree

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. - Samuel Smiles

The great leader seldom moves by guesswork and without proper forward planning. He has a plan to guide his actions towards his goal in a definite manner and to counter any pitfalls along the journey. - Unknown

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. - Blaine Lee

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. - Ken Blanchard

The issue of fairness and justice is so universal that no leader can hope to retain for long the loyalty and respect of his followers without them. - Unknown

The job of leaders is to think from their heads, communicate from their hearts and act from their guts. - David Gaster

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious. - John C. Maxwell

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. … Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership. - Gary Wills

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. - Clarence R. Randall

The manager administers, the leader innovates. The manager maintains, the leader develops. The manager relies on systems, the leader relies on people. The manager counts on controls, the leader counts on trust. The manager does things right, the leader does the right thing. - Unknown

The responsibility of a leader is to bring those that are under his direction from where they are now to where they have never been. - James Mendel

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. - Andre Maurois

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. - William Hazlitt

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests. - Gail Sheehy

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action. - Vince Lombardi

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. - Fred A. Manske, Jr.

There are excellent leaders but no perfect leaders. If your leader fails sometimes, it is only a manifestation of their imperfection and should not tarnish him as a good leader. - Unknown

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece. - Evan Esar

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going. - Joe Namath

To lead people, walk behind them. - Lao Tzu

True leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. - Tom Peters

Truly inspiring leaders are authentic, that is, they have done their strategic homework, they have a vision that matches the people they are working with, and they believe in that vision deeply. They are not faking it. - Ronald J. Burke & Cary L. Cooper

When I talk to managers, I get the feeling that they are important. When I talk to leaders, I get the feeling that I am important. - Unknown  

When there is danger, a good leader takes the front line; but when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back of the room. - Nelson Mandela

When we think we lead, we are most led. - Lord Bryon

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. - Gene Mauch

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. - Ken Kesey

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity. - Colin Powell

Food For Thought

No philosophy can save us from the work required to create a fulfilling life. Courage will always be needed to face our inner and outer demons. Compassion and honesty will always be needed to develop strong and lasting relationships, and self-control will always be essential to sacrifice immediate pleasures and relief for long lasting benefits. - Troy

It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you. - Abraham-Hicks

I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn’t guarantee that others will be good people too. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away. - Unknown

Quote Worthy

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities. They are always there. - Norman Vincent Peale

The tests of life are to make, not break us. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. - Gail Sheehy

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. - Norman Vincent Peale

Understanding gives birth to forgiveness, forgiveness reveals the heart. The heart is the womb of Love. - Soaring Eagle

Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, as fear of its consequences to us. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late. - Thomas Fuller

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. - Thomas Sowell

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