Excerpt from Great Quotes from Great Leaders

Compiled by Peggy Anderson

1. The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826

2. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
1863-1947

3. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
1910-1997

4. If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
Winston Churchill
1874-1965

5. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela
1918-

6. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
1913-1970

7. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles have strengthened me...You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
1901-1966

8. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962

9. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948

10. I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will eventually triumph. And there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004

11. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
1917-1963

12. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
1902-1984

13. The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929-1968

14. There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
1856-1915

15. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

16. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919

17. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
1875-1965

18. There is only one boss. The customer. And they can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
1918-1992

19. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
1910 - 2010

20. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
1880-1968