Zhuge Liang Quotes

#1. O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

Zhou Yu

#2. There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion ... THEIR religion.

Phil Donahue

#3. There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

Zhuge Liang

#4. What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?

Zhuge Liang

#5. Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Zhuge Liang

#6. When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

Cate Marvin

#7. This was the sort of cruelty that only came from turned backs, from being ignored. Well-aimed lashes and direct blows were more easily understood. At least then the stricken knew their anguished cries were being heard.

Hugh Howey

#8. Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Alan Alda

#9. Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.

Marian Keyes

#10. Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling ... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

#11. Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.

Zhuge Liang

#12. This is really enlightening. I didn't know life was supposed to be easy. How could I have lived all these years and not realized life was supposed to be easy? I feel really stupid now.

Amanda Usen

#13. Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Paul Muldoon

#14. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Zhuge Liang

#15. Strength is but one aspect of power.

Zhuge Liang

#16. Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.

John P. Kotter

#17. A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.

Alexandre Dumas

#18. Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

Zhuge Liang

#19. Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#20. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears:
Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,
In their nativity all truth appears.
How can these things in me seem scorn to you,
Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

William Shakespeare

#21. Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

Henrietta Mears

#22. The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Zhuge Liang

#24. To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

Zhuge Liang

#25. We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

Jeremy Corbyn

#26. The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

Zhuge Liang

#27. First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

Zhuge Liang

#28. Battles are not won by strength alone!

Zhuge Liang