| "Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." »Colin |
| "A position is what you hold; a job is what you do." »Ileana Helwig |
| "In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch |
| "You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." »Anthony D'Angelo |
| "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." »Mark Twain |
| "I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position." »Pat Conroy |
| "The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel." »Piet Mondrian |
| "The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense." »Holly Lisle |
| "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." »Booker T. Washington |
| "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings." »Abraham Maslow |
| "The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms." »Kristin Hunter |
| "I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect." »William Thayer Shedd |
| "He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)" »L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
| "It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up." »F. M. Young |
| "Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them." »La Bruyere |
| "The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori |
| "The ways in which senior executives allocate, manage and position their new digital assets and knowledge resources will have a strong bearing on the firms ability to compete successfully in todays global digital economy." »Med Yones |
| "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." »Max Beerbohm |
| "You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." »Jean Kerr |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27)." »Cornelius Stam |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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