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Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu 
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
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