You peeps seem to be having fun with the all the finance quotes, thoughtful quotes, love quotes, marriage quotes and faith quotes, so we’re continuing with our series on quotes for a little bit. Here are some famous quotes by warriors, leaders, kings, queens, prime ministers, presidents and other historical figures that make you think. Which one is your favorite?
I’d rather be alive and hated than dead and loved.
Golda Meir
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Golda Meir
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Nelson Mandela
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
Mikhail Gorbachev
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer
I’m a realist. I believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
If you will it, it is no dream.
Theodor Herzl, Father of modern Zionism
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What else should be on this list? Comment and let us know!
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