Quotes 13661 till 13680 of 25371.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64 -
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
Source: A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570 -
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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