Age Quotes
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.Joseph Conrad
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.Clifford Bax
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Augustine, (AD 354 - 430)
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.Edward De Bono
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.William Butler Yeats
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.Samuel S. Janus
Carthago delenda est. Carthage must be destroyed.Marcius Porcius Cato
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.Lee Iacocca
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Albert Schweitze
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.William Ellery Channing
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.Rosalind Sussman Yalow
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.Ronald Reagan
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Reinhold Niebuh
I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.Gilda Radne
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.Joe Moore
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
