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Quotations : PASSION

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
- Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"Any time you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse. There’s no such thing in life as simple holding on to what you’ve got."
- Pat Riley, NBA Hall of Fame coach

"Success if never final, but failure can be."
- Bill Parcells, NFL football coach

"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I’d trip her. Oh, I’d pick her up and brush her off and say, Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me."
- Leo Durocher, legendary baseball manager

"If you ever find a man who is better than you are hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself."
- David Ogilvy, advertising mogul

"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."
- Nelson Boswell

"It’s never too late to be what you could have been."
- George Eliot

"In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
- Harry S. Truman

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls your ego goes with it."
- Colin Powell

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes."
- John Erksine, The Complete Life

"A friend of mine characterizes leader simply like this: Leaders don’t inflict pain. They bear pain."
- Max DePree, Leadership is an Art

"Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure."
- Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."
- John G. Vance

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
- Vince Lombardi

"Every golden era in human history proceeds from the devotion and righteous passion of some single individual. There are no bona fide mass movements; it just looks that way. There is always one man who knows God and knows where he is going."
- Richard E. Day

"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."
- E. M. Forster

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
- Walter Cronkite, legendary newsman

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
- Sir Edmund Hillary

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