“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

topic:action opinion leadership

QuoteImageAI

To create a beautiful custom image, click the button below to use it online for free

Free To Use Download Image

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Take heed, I have often heard it said in a vulgar proverb, the wise may be instructed by a fool.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I speak to you as just another human being; as a simple monk.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

Recommended Topics

satisfaction way interest vanity teaching sun hiding travel hell existence grief eternity relationship stars despair misery right difference food people

© Copyright 2025 QuoteImageAI