Accountm Quotes

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

You are not only responsible for what you say,

but also for what you do not say.

The task of leadership is

not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find,

but symmetrical men never.

I will not lose,

for even in defeat,

there’s a valuable lesson learned.

The world hates change,

yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is

prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Man is condemned to be free.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field,

not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

There is a blessed necessity by

which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;

and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I wasn't shy,

but I was really hyper.

Nobody got my sense of humor.

I was a black skater kid.

Your brand is what other people say about you

when you're not in the room.

Everything has its limit

iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

If you love life,

don’t waste time,

for time is what life is made up of.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Life is a difficult game.

You can win it only

by retaining your birthright

to be a person.