Top 29 Great Statesman Quotes
#1. That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Plato
#2. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt
#3. A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
John Stuart Mill
#4. Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.
Adrian Hodges
#5. It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.
John Stuart Mill
#6. Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.
Havelock Ellis
#7. A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
Andre Maurois
#8. A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.
Thomas Hardy
#9. I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#10. Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.
Ilana Mercer
#13. Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#15. The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#16. The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
Steve Lawson
#17. He called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry ...
Truman Capote
#18. and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother? To
George Eliot
#19. It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
Yani Tseng
#20. This is the man who will be my grandfather - the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
Wendell Berry
#21. Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!
Anthony Horowitz
#22. The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#23. Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#24. He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
David Lloyd George
#25. Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
#26. Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can.
Debasish Mridha
#27. A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.
Lauryn Hill
#28. Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.
Kenneth Rexroth
#29. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
M.E. Dahkid
