We use words all day long to share our feelings, our aspirations and despairs, and to coordinate our actions with each other. And though it may well be said that words power the world, some words are more powerful than others. They move us, inspire us, even guide us. And the Internet provides a great showcase for those moving, inspirational, and guiding words for there are a multitude of Websites that provide citations, quotations, annotations, and other -tations about words spoken by the rich, the famous, the powerful, the living, and the dying. Here are a few Websites that you may enjoy browsing simply because they stand out from the rest (in this writer’s opinion) for some conspicuous reason. Leadership Quotations plucks some of the most interesting quotes out of the great ocean of wonderful sayings and combines them in a combination inspirational tutorial on how leaders teach others to lead. Many different points of view are represented and the quotations are divided into categories by article. Here is hoping we see more from this site. The “Funny Leadership Quotes” article alone is well worth reading as it will brighten your day to see how some of the great leaders of the past looked at the world through the eyes of amusement. Yogi Berra is famous for saying things with a wry twist of logic. This Yogi Berra quotes page brings together some of the cheesiest and most incredible Yogi Berraisms you can hope to find. One of my favorites is “Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” That is so Yogi Berra, because it speaks to you on two levels. Berra has been criticized and critiqued and parodied but he may be one the most misunderstood sports philosophers in history. He was always trying to say something about what he saw in every situation. It came out as a failed attempt at profundity but in this writer’s opinion that only goes to show that Berra saw the world with eyes that few of us could hope to match. His words were inadequate to the task but his vision was untouchably clear and profound. President Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most storied presidents in US history. Did you know he is the only US President to have won both the Nobel Peace Prize and the US Congressional Medal of Honor? Many Presidents have been war heroes, going all the way back to George Washington, but Roosevelt never stopped fighting for the peace and freedom that he would bestow upon the common man. This great article on Teddy Roosevelt quotes reminds us of why we study history. Roosevelt was considered to be a progressive President but he was a man who was needed during his lifetime because he fundamentally changed the way the United States thought of itself and its people. Speaking of war, every few years a US President makes a special trip to France to give a commemorative speech somewhere on the shores of Normandy. […]
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