Quotes on Hospitality

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥