Julius Gordon Quotes

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

In life, you'll often find that having influence and providing sound advice is a good thing, even if it attracts criticism or requires some sacrifice.

I'm a really strong guy. I can deal with a lot of things. But I can't deal with anybody suffering.

With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That's what we believe Superman is.

I always knew I took care of more than myself from a young age. People depended on me.

It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That's Wonder Woman to me.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.