Quotes 81 till 100 of 2216.
-
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
-
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
-
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
-
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
-
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
-
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
-
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
-
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
-
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
-
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
-
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
-
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
-
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
-
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
-
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
-
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
-
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
-
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
All prosperity-at-any-price famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)
