great leadership quotes

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. ~e.e. cummings



In violence we forget who we are. ~Mary McCarthy



When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills



Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ~From the television show The Big Bang Theory, written by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, and Dave Goetsch, "The Big Bran Hypothesis"



What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley



Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker



Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. ~Karl Kraus



It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso



The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. ~Martin Mull



A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! ~Proverbs 15:23



Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~Thomas Haynes Bayly, Isle of Beauty



I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 12



Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverb



It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~Anatole France



There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain



Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain



Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall



To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb



Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins



Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes. ~Author Unknown