Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About is

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged
Man Defeat Discourage Remember
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. ”

Victory Hard Cost Terror
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Always Define Stand More
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friend All None
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Like Always Prefer Convince
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everyb

Angry Easy Person Purpose
  Favorite Make wallpaper

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Best Animal Law Worst
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism Avoid Easy Say
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Dignity Consist Honor Deserve
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Educate Mind Heart All
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Ornament Refuge Prosper Adversity
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Rascal Thief Every But
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence Art Train Virtue
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Fear Pain From Evil
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Best Choice Possible Achieve
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Mirror Through Accessible Improve
  Favorite Make wallpaper

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Who Good Rule First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Count Brave Desire Victory
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Success Failure Fatal Courage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Victory Terror Hard Survival
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Maker Prepared Ordeal Meet
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Good Uneducated Book Man
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Never Organ Room Discussion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Democracy Voter Argument Against
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finis

Trials Battle Fail Weak
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Great Strides Resolute Purpose
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Success Courage Failure Final
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Easy Perform Action Acquire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Enough War Win Peace
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Possible Fail While Possible
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Well Health Wealth Wisdom
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Man Goal Animal Goal
  Favorite Make wallpaper