Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.

Travel teaches tolerance.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Life is too short to be small.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

Success is the child of audacity.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Silence is the mother of truth.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?;"Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

''Frank and explicit'' -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.