“Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.”

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.

When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow.

I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don’t regret them.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

There is no substitute for hard work.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.