Baibar

Military Sultan Egyptian 1223 – 1277

Egyptian Mamluk sultan; defeated Mongols at Ain Jalut; expanded Mamluk power.

395 quotes

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
Leadership
"Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life."
Work
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Work
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
Dreams
"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."
Dreams
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
Humor
"Laughter is the best medicine."
Humor
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Beauty
"There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful mind."
Beauty
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Death
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas."
Death
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Perseverance
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself."
Gratitude
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings."
Gratitude
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Creativity
"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
Creativity
"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are."
Justice
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Justice
"Patience is a virtue."
Patience
"All things come to those who wait."
Patience
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Kindness
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
Strength
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
Strength
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power
"The greatest power is the power to change."
Power
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy freedom."
Money
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
Money
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."
Health