(1881 quotes found)
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
William A. Foster
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”
George W. Bush
“The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.”
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
“I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.”
“You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans”
George Carlin
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
“The execution of the laws is more important than the making them”
Thomas Jefferson
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success”
Otto von Bismarck
“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome”
William James
