Quotations
A to C
“For true love is inexhaustible, the more you give, the more you have.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer and Poet
“Every gift which is given, even if small, is in reality great,
if given with affection.”
Pindar
Greek Lyric Poet
“Chose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it most agreeable.”
Frances Bacon
English Philosopher
“As nightfall does not come all at once neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything seems unchanged,
and it is in such a twilight we all must be most alert of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwilling victims of the of darkness .”
William O. Douglass
American Justice of the Supreme Court
“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires
reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.”
Frederick Douglas
American Social Reformer
“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues
all the utilities of the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Author
“The level of our success is only limited by our imagination,
and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
Greek Story Teller
“It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough
and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
“The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of nostalgia for heavenly bliss
and eternal calmness.”
Robert Smithson
American Artist
“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy
of will are aroused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
Walter Scott
Scottish Historical Novelist
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with (wordiness.)"
W. C. Fields
American Comedian and Author
“My father was a man to whom nature had dealt bountiful, and
who had assiduously improved
her gifts.”
John Marshall
Chief Justice of the United States
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing unless
if it does not mean loving
some people more than others.”
George Orwell
British Author
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States of America
“Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman and Philosopher
“Charity is injurious unless it helps recipients become independent of it.”
John D. Rockefeller
Philanthropist
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is
determined not by our circumstance, but by our disposition.”
Martha Washington
The First First Lady of the United States
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Napoleon Hill
American Author
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because at some day in your life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
Am American Agricultural Scientist and Inventor
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
American Author
“The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love
is the one who is always doing small considerate ones.”
Frederick William Robertson
Anglo-Scottish Novelist
“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards
which all logical and consistent minds must strive.”
Victor Hugo
French Author
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man
when he has occasion for it.
Courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.”
Joseph Addison
English Poet and Statesman
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves. Springing up under
every disadvantage and working from their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”
Washington Irving
Story Writer
