Ed Bradley Quotes
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.
Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
