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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Leadership, Nice, Others

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Love, Yourself, Everything

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

Everyone, Height, According

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain

Good, Business, Full

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou

Life, Between, Greedy

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Humor, Hurt, Pain

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu

Life, Death, Different

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Sense, Reading

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

Great, Joy, Service

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

Love, Religion, Yourself

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost

Place, Road, Worst

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Idiot, Between, Fishing

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Rock, Help

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Failure, Between

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama

Money, Sure, President

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Saying, Remember

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

Success, Winning, Game

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.
Lil Wayne

Judge, Black, Put

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

Idea, Finish, Crossed

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

War, Human, Fact

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill

Succeed, Endeavor

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Morality, Drawing

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
Clint Eastwood

Thought, Somebody, Call

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
Mitt Romney

Time, Home, Become

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright

Last, Year, Fish

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates

Between, System, Magic

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

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