Age Quotes
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Confucius
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.Andre Malraux
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.Johnson
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.Mel Brooks
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple Black
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.Thomas Jefferson
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field... I could not answer.General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time... is a very good one...Ralph Waldo Emerson
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.Albert Einstein
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.Abraham Maslow
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
