"Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief."

-- Mary Renault

#Eye Quotes #Tests Quotes #Care Quotes

“I'm sure you get the best out of people if you look for the best in them. People don't need to be told when they've done something wrong - they know it without having to be told.”

Source : "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine" by Maranda Pleasant and Gina G. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.
“Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too”
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”
“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”
“God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

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