Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSONThe fewer the desires, the more peace.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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