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A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett

Good, Great, Help

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Business, Alone

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Done, Youth

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Worry, Less

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley

Become, Sense, Wanted

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle

Alone, Excellent, Except

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo

May, Friends, Young

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

Men, Down, Same

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Women, Men, Married

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Laugh, Crying, Avoid

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy Graham

Everybody, Bit, Watergate

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal

Trust, God, Truth

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle

Cannot, Greatness, Quite

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Long, Enough, Put

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman

Love, Money, Dog

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, Everything, Universal

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland

Loneliness, Woman, Book

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Human, Joke, Aim

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich

Beautiful, Woman, Interested

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Long, Try, Rather

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

Dead, Call, Horse

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

Humor, Sense, Console

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft

Dreams, Business, Thoughts

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle

Men, Nothing, Wish

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell

God, Atheist, Dislike

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave

Power, Victory, Whole

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings

Black, Individual, White

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle

Obedience, Woe, Claims

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud

God, Give, Become

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine

Deep, Profound, Hidden

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