Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
Dolly Parton

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr