Thucyclides Famous Quotes
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."
"Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation."
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
Thucyclides Quotations
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
Anne Wilson Schaef
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."
Jim Rohn
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Richard Milhous Nixon
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Unknown
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis