Quotations
N to R
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.
True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
American Novelis
““He who has learned how to obey, has learned how to command.”
Solon
Athenian Statesman
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
Edmund Burke
Irish Statesman
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day.
Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
“He that would live in peace and ease must not say all he knows or
all he sees.”
Benjamin Franklin
American Diplomat and Inventor
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
British Statesman
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have persistent intuition.”
Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
“Be polite, write diplomatically.
Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
Otto von Bismarck
German Chancellor
The strongest, by dispensing his powers over many, may fail to accomplish anything.”
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
“However great we may be the work for which we are responsible,
we will always do wee if we pause to spend some time in sacred praise.”
Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
Mark Twain AKA Samuel Clemens
American Humorist
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”
Davy Crockett
American Frontiersman
“King of the Wild Frontier”
“The cornerstone of all spiritual building is purity.”
Mary Baker Eddy
“All man’s miseries arise from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
“So the darkness will be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
Eric Tolle
American Poet
“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.”
Albert Pike
American Author
“The duty of rhetoric … is to take in at a glance a complicated argument
and follow a long chain of reasoning.”
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world
belongs to you.”
Lao Tzu
“There is a sacredness in tears.... They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
Washington Irving
American Writer
“To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.”
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
English Theologian
