Age Quotes
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.Serge Kahili King
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
Any 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.E. F. Schumache
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.John Kenneth Galbraith
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.Charles Schwa
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.Art Linklette
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
In youth we learn; in age we understand.Ebner - Eschenbach
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.Val Peters
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.Henry Ward Beeche
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.Indian Prove
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.Mark Twain
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.John A. Rassias
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.Mark Twain
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N. B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.William Congreve
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
