Race Quotes
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.Henry Louis Mencken
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.Alexander Hamilton
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.John Dryden
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.Mackay
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.John Train
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.Victor Hugo
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.H. L. Mencken
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.Herbert Westren Turnbull
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination.Mark Twain
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.Ralph Waldo Emerson
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.From The Last Goon Show of All
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.Cicero
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.Cicero
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
