Position Quotes

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The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position… — Gill Robb Wilson
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in… — Adolf Hitler
Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills… — Daniel Goleman
Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new… — David Lilienthal
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my… — Alexander MacLaren
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
Leadership is an action, not a position. — Donald McGannon
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole… — Peter Drucker
Leadership is action, not position — Donald McGannon
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in… — Pope John Paul II
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all… — Ida Tarbell
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping… — Morihei Ueshiba
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they… — Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,… — Jacques Ellul
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of… — Christopher Hitchens
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately… — Ralph C. Smedley
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot… — Frank P. Ramsey

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