Inspiring Hero Quotes to Ignite the Fire Within You - page 49

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery
 Joseph Pulitzer
In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.
 Charlie Chaplin
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.
A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.
 Lou Gerstner
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
 Samuel Rutherford
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
 Anna Deavere Smith
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
 E. L. James
If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
 Cleve Jones
I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.
 Neil Patrick Harris
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
 Lakhdar Brahimi
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
 Sam Walton
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.
 Stefan Zweig
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
 Beverly Daniel Tatum
Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.
I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.
 Dan Payne
I'm doing this for my family and my country.
 Manny Pacquiao