The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

And I don’t watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

The left takes its vision seriously – more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice

Success requires sacrifice and dedication.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Always do more than is required of you.

I’m known for proving people wrong. Remember that

There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.