Billy Diamond quotes

“Great obstacles make great leaders.”
-- Billy Diamond

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“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”

“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”

“There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.”

“Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.”

Source : "Raw Data: Democratic Debate, Part I". "Fox News" with Gwenn Ifill, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2003.

“Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.294, A&C Black

“The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.”

“Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.154, Rodale

“The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.”

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”

“Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.”