61 Quotes by Jack Weatherford

The first key to leadership is self-control.

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such as Athens occasionally attempted a system vaguely akin to democracy for a few years. These cities functioned as slave societies and were certainly not egalitarian or democratic in the Indian sense.

Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.