Famous quotes by Leaders

"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously!"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I grew up to always respect authority, and respect those in charge"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us"

William Penn, Leader

"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers"

William Penn, Leader

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably"

William Penn, Leader

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world"

William Penn, Leader

"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee"

William Penn, Leader

"We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that"

William Penn, Leader

"To be like Christ is to be a Christian"

William Penn, Leader

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns"

William Penn, Leader

"He that lives to live forever, never fears dying"

William Penn, Leader

"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end"

William Penn, Leader

"Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness"

William Penn, Leader

"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune"

William Penn, Leader

"Passion is the mob of the man that commits a riot upon his reason"

William Penn, Leader

"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's"

William Penn, Leader

"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man"

William Penn, Leader

"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it"

William Penn, Leader

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care"

William Penn, Leader

"Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"When you talk, you are only repeating something you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other"

Dalai Lama, Leader

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