Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and talk when you would like to read.
A man who cannot command himself shall not command others.
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
I see many eyes and I understand many opinions.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the Kingdom of England.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless. But not men.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
I would rather be first in a village than second in Rome.
The best leader is one whose existence is barely known. When their work is done, the people say: we did it ourselves.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
I shall not depart from the example of my father.
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.
It doth even take my wits from me to think on it.
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.
There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.
Nobody can rule guiltlessly.
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic.
I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.
