Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow WilsonRead
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
Interpretation
A single thoughtful decision can be more valuable than many rushed discussions.
This quote highlights the importance of careful and deliberate decision-making over impulsive group discussions that may lack clarity and direction. Woodrow Wilson suggests that taking the time to arrive at a well-considered judgment can yield far superior results than a multitude of hasty opinions that often confuse rather than clarify an issue.
In practice
This quote can be used in a leadership seminar to emphasize the value of careful decision-making.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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