Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHONWhether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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.
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