Quote by Robert Jordan

“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Built like a giant, handsome and not at all stupid, he was one of those people whom luck always follows everywhere — not because…

— Maxim Gorky

“But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without…

— Ken Follet

“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Everybody likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order of cause…

— Howard Zinn

“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too…

— Primo Levi

“Without hard work, no nation can be developed no matter how potentially gifted its citizens maybe”.”

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood…

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“... we took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.”

— Various

“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his…

— Upton Sinclair