Insightful Quotes for Self Management
“The
purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue
growing as we continue to live."
~Morris
Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychiatrist
“The worst ruler
is one who cannot rule himself.”
~Cato the Elder
“I shall be an autocrat: that is my trade. And the good Lord will forgive
me: that’s his.”
~Catherine the Great
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and
stomach of a king, and a King of England too.”
~Elizabeth I, speech to Royal Navy at Tilbury while awaiting the Spanish Armada,
1588
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the
future.”
~Euripides
(480 or 485–406 B.C.)
“I will not change my beliefs to win votes; I will offer a choice, not an
echo.”
~Barry Goldwater, presidential campaign speech, January 3, 1964
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
~Greek proverb
“Liberty
without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
~John
F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess
plainly that events have controlled me.”
~Abraham Lincoln, letter to A.G. Hodges, April 4, 1864
“I
desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when
I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth,
I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of
me.”
~Abraham Lincoln, reply to a peace-now committee, 1864
“The
least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
~Thomas
Merton (1915 - 1968)
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know
how to follow too.”
~Sam Rayburn
“He did not know all the answers. But, more than other politicians of the
day, he knew the questions.”
~Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., on Robert F. Kennedy
“My only ambition is to do my duty in this world as well as I am capable of
performing it, and to merit the good opinion of all good men.”
~George Washington, on the eve of his election as President, 1789