Tacitus Quotes

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

No team works out teamwork.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

The worse I do the more popular I get.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.

Some leaders are born women.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

A mind that practices love cannot love.