Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSONAt every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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 would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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