Them Quotes

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.