famous leadership quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909



Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ~Lemony Snicket



Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields



Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay



God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biologiste, 1962



To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley



Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. ~Albert Camus



Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires." ~John McSherry



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet



The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. ~Eric Bell, The Search for Truth



The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer



Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ~Author Unknown



I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ~Robert Frost



No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ~Garrett Hardin, The Ecologist, February 1974



I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968



Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Your ignorance cramps my conversation. ~Anthony Hope



When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff



You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin