Behinds Quotes

• To lead people, walk behind them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Business, People

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Kids

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs". Book by Morton A. Meyers, p. 14, 2007.

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• Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Time, Shadow, Eternity

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.191, Booklassic

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  If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Accomplishment, Miracle

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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  I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Adventure, Doors, Looks

  Twitter post from May 05, 2013

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• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Funny Life, Accomplish Nothing

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• I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have

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  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  Pericles

  Life, Education, Appreciation

  "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

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• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Being Alone, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.329, Princeton University Press

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• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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