Lead Quotes - page 3

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. (Henry David Thoreau)
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. View quote
Max Lucado
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. View quote
Montesquieu
The road must eventually lead to the whole world. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. View quote
Robert Frost
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D. C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. View quote
Norbert Wiener
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. View quote
George S. Patton
[T]he blind lead the blind, it's the democratic way. (Henry Miller)
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. View quote
William Godwin
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. View quote
William Cobbett
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. View quote
Angela Carter
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits? View quote
John Templeton
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. View quote
Anton LaVey
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. View quote
Davy Crockett
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. (Bertrand Russell)
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. View quote
Albert Camus
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. View quote
Pierre Curie
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