Race Quotes

Cicero - there is no being of any race who, if he finds...
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Herbert Westren Turnbull
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie
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Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
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
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
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Jim Grue
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalie
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.
Wystan Hugh Auden
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
James Agee
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley
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
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
George Orwell
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
John Dalberg
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?
William Blake 1803
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.
Cicero
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Mark L. Mika
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i. e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Marcus Terentius Varro
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
Proverbs 47 - 8
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
Stephen Fry