Age Quotes
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.Jack Holland
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.Thomas Mann
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
One man with courage is a majority.Thomas Jefferson
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.Peter Brodie
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch, 1940
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.Lindsay Lohan
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
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
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.Stephen Hawking
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.Author Unknown
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.Sir Winston Churchill
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.Henry Ford
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.Black Hawk
