Barriers Quote by Tryon Edwards

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers…

— Samuel Johnson

He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies

— John Milton

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them…

— Carl von Clausewitz

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision…

— Eric Hoffer

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of…

— Thomas Carlyle

When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to…

— Samuel Palmer

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

— Oswald Chambers

“He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him…

— Francis Bacon

“he wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs.…

— John Haggai

“The master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

— Laozi