quotes by General Quotes

“Pressure makes diamonds”

“There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.”

“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”

“You don't know what you can get away with until you try.”

“The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.”

“Trust is the essence of Leadership.”

“Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”

“England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.”

“Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?”

“The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”

“The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.”

“A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.”

“In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.”

“Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.”

“Cheaters don't like getting caught.”

“My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.”

“One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.”

“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”

“California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators - in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors - got their start here.”

“Great men are never cruel without necessity.”

“Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.”

“Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.”

“It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.”

“There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.”

“You're never beaten until you admit it”

“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

“Decision-making is lonely.”

“The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.”

“Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.”

“Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.”

“We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.”

“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”

“The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.”

“The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.”

“Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.”

“You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.”

“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”

“That so few understand me is why I am treasured.”

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”

“Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.”

“To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.”

“I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.”

“So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.”

“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”

“Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don't mean necessarily "buddy-buddy", just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they're with you.”

“All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.”

“Build up virtue, and you master all.”

“What is and what is not create each other.”