"Many a man never fails because he never tries."

Macewan, Norman on Failure
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Critics and Criticism
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."

Twain, Mark on Opinions
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

Watt, James on Lies and Lying
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on Truth
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Augustine, St. on Duty
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on Desire
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."

Johnson, Samuel on Respectability
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."

Demosthenes on Censure
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Duty
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

Watson, Thomas J. on Success
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

Descartes, Rene on Simplicity
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on Health
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."

Young, Brigham on Law and Lawyers
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Friends and Friendship
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 19 fans >>

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Greatness
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 8 fans >>

"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on Government
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 9 fans >>

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles on Forgiveness
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."

Villiers, George on World
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

Clarke, James Freeman on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Silence
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Danger, the spur of all great minds."

Chapman, George on Danger
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Critics are those who have failed in literature and art."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Critics and Criticism
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."

Kraus, Karl on Democracy
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."

Kraus, Karl on Learning
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them."

Duncan, Barry on Generosity
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

Yeats, William Butler on Dreams
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 6 fans >>

"There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences."

Inge, Dean William R. on Consequences
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on Achievement
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 14 fans >>

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Proverb, Chinese on Blame
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 8 fans >>

"Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Change
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Carlyle, Thomas on Doubt
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."

Bacon, Francis on Prosperity
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Robbins, Anthony on Failure
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

Rooney, Mickey on Failure
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fate
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on Bankers and Banking
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Doctors
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth."

Ennius, Quintus on Action
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."

Boetcker, William on Service
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 4 fans >>