Famous Quotes

"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"

Lao Tzu on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Lao Tzu

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

• "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"

• "To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

• "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

• "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."