Quotes by statesmen

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country. Indira Gandhi
Losing Election Country Important Winning Than Less Strengthening
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Akhenaton
Beautiful Woman Power Beautiful Woman Beauty Stars Vain Virtue Charms Than Heaven Influence Modesty Brighter Her Enlighten Resist Lustre
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. Colin Powell
Work Yourself People Work Hard Surround Yourself Seriously Those Take Surround Themselves Hard Who Play
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan
Good Equality Challenge Gender Poverty Building Sustainable Development Meeting Promoting More Development Reducing Governance Goal Itself Than Sustainable Good Governance
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. Nelson Mandela
Small Things Simple Walk Prison Control Appreciates Has-Been Silent Able Small Simple Act Remain Take Been Person Shop Going Whenever Being After Wants Newspaper Act Speaking Choosing Things Buying
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khrushchev
Build Politicians Promise Rivers Over Same Bridges Even
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill
History Secrets Lies Study Study History
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill
Politics Tomorrow Year Month Ability Week Foretell Going Happen Afterwards Explain Next Next Year Why
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke
Government Nothing Unjust Out Feeble Oppressive Turns
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger
Leadership People Leader Been His Task Get Where
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull
Love Gardening Spring Earth Sun Embraces See Shall Results Gladly Soon Come Friends Behold Received
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work Me Integrity Problem Vision Passion Leader Defeat Define Must He Instead Know Most How Importantly Any Afraid Should
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. Colin Powell
Yourself People Problem First Solve Bother Without Trying Help
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. Vladimir Putin
Fight Corruption Those Clean Themselves Should Who
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
Time Day Nature Lie Clouds Water Sometimes Listening Sky Rest Grass Trees Summer Idleness Across Means Float Waste Waste Of Time Murmur Watching
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Birthday Gift Consists Given Giver Doer Done Intention
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. Nelson Mandela
Beautiful History Experience Oppression Will Shall Never Another Again Land
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
Me Justice Legal Humanity Lawyer Ought Tell Tells May Reason
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Heights Road Leads Greatness Rough Rough Road
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill
Life Result Nothing Without Exhilarating Shot
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Winston Churchill
Organ Monkey Never Discussions Hold Room
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You Fight Destination Battle Challenge Become Reach Until Anyone Which Your Unique Hardest Imagine
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fool Quality Own Others Faults Perceive His Forget Peculiar
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life Friendship You True Friend World Sun More Take True Like Robbing Friend Left Than Esteemed Sweetness Away
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair
Freedom Democracy People Law Police Dictatorship Tyranny Secret Rule Rule Of Law Given Same Anytime Ordinary Anywhere Ordinary People Choice Choose Chance
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill
You Wise Difficult Further See Look Always Than
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