
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Modesty is my best quality.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But...if it's real, you'll feel it.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

You can't test courage cautiously.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

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

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.