Quotes by Diplomats - Page 2

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 you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
Shirley Temple Black
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjöld
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
Florence Hurst Harriman
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
James Russell Lowell
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
Dwight Morrow
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
Lord Halifax
Freedom works.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
John Cudahy
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.
Oliver Franks
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
J. K. Galbraith
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
The king reigns but does not govern.
Otto von Bismarck
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported insulated and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.
Shirley Temple Black
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
Arthur K. Watson
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.
Ralph J. Bunche
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.
Herbert Samuel
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck