Rand Institute of Leadership
Quotes
- Moon him Ozzie! Tao of Rand
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- There are two T's to leadership: You TELL and you TAKE.
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- We're living like kings! I'm having ice in my coke every night. Tao of Rand
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Kids like Skittles. Tao of Rand
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The greatness of Winter Camp comes from positive attitudes during activities, whether complicated or simple events, combined with a sense of grandeur.
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- This one will make a good X. Tao of Rand
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A lie in this case would be appropriate and acceptable. Tao of Rand
- Jeff Rand (Added: January 7, 2005)
- All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- James Matthew Barrie (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- Robert A. Heinlein (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
- Samuel Coleridge (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
- Morris Leopold Ernst (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
- Eric Hoffer (Added: January 7, 2005)
- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Elbert Hubbard (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
- Josh Billings (Added: January 7, 2005)
- All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
- Juvenal (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
- Josh Billings (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- Miguel de Cervantes (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this: the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (Added: January 7, 2005)
- I have been a success: for sixty years I have eaten, and have avoided being eaten.
- Logan P. Smith (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (Added: January 7, 2005)
- This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
- Robert E. Lee (Added: January 7, 2005)
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Samuel Johnson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Many a man never fails because he never tries.
- Norman MacEwan (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin (Added: January 7, 2005)
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
- Menander of Athens (Added: January 7, 2005)
- That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
- William Shakespeare (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (Added: January 7, 2005)
- All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
- Samuel Johnson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
- Charles Morgan (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
- Aristotle (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (Added: January 7, 2005)
- When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
- Confucius (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
- Josh Billings (Added: January 7, 2005)
- By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- Edmund Burke (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher Morley (Added: January 7, 2005)
- To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
- Wilson Mizner (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
- M. W. Little (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli (Added: January 7, 2005)
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
- Mark Twain (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
- Confucius (Added: January 7, 2005)
- I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
- Orson Welles (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- Proverb (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Light is the task where many share the toil.
- Homer (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison (Added: January 7, 2005)
- If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
- Unknown (Added: January 7, 2005)
- One wrecked meal is a small price to pay to show a youth you trust him.
- Big Bro (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to do something.
- Unknown (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
- Unknown (Added: January 7, 2005)
- To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A friend will help you move a house. A best friend will help you move a body.
- Alexi Sayle (Added: January 7, 2005)
- You'll miss 100 percent of all shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzsky (Added: January 7, 2005)
- If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters
- Abigail Van Buren (Added: January 7, 2005)
- If you see a bandwagon, it's too late
- Sir James Goldsmith (Added: January 7, 2005)
- There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.
- Mike Leavitt (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Everything comes to those who hustle while he waits.
- Thomas Edison (Added: January 7, 2005)
- To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
- Robert Copeland (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- George Patton (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
- Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo, Italy (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
- Tommy Lasorda (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Added: January 7, 2005)
- I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
- Jonas Salk (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
- Stewart E. White (Added: January 7, 2005)
- When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
- William B. Given, Jr. (Added: January 7, 2005)
- We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
- Jonathan Westover (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
- Thomas Carlyle (Added: January 7, 2005)
- A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
- H. Mathews (Added: January 7, 2005)
- All animals are equal
But some animals are more equal than others
- George Orwell (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
- Felix Frankfurter (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
- Percy Johnston (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
- Charles Simmons (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
- Horace (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Ridicule is the language of the devil. Tao of Rand
- Thomas Carlyle (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
- Johann von Schiller (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Added: January 7, 2005)
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.
- François de La Rochefoucauld (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
- François de La Rochefoucauld (Added: January 7, 2005)
- It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
- François de La Rochefoucauld (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Euripides (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.
- William Blake (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
- H. W. Arnold (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- André Maurois (Added: January 7, 2005)
- True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
- Humboldt (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people.
- Robert Lynd (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.
- Immanuel Kant (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.
- Joseph Parker (Added: January 7, 2005)
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Josh Billings (Added: January 7, 2005)
- What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
- Proverb (Added: January 7, 2005)
- Never Explain... your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard (Added: January 7, 2005)