funny leadership quotes

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade



You know you're from Arizona when you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter. ~Local Saying



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa



Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom



We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. ~J.B. Priestley



When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb



The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892



God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"



I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman



I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ~Hartman Jule



Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies



History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain



Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners



Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. ~Gene Perret



You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca