Quotes by Diplomats - Page 5

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
J. K. Galbraith
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
Henry Kissinger
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Happiness has many roots but none more important than security.
E. R. Stettinius
We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.
Octavio Paz
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
J. K. Galbraith
Every nation has the government that it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.
Lester Pearson
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Talleyrand
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
Dwight Morrow
A difficulty for every solution.
Herbert Samuel
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
Owen Meredith
Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!
James Russell Lowell
Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
James Russell Lowell
Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.
Bayard Taylor
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance renewed daily of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjöld
God'll send the bill to you.
James Russell Lowell
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
Not failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Owen Meredith
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Washington Irving
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only menace is inertia.
Saint John Perse
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.
Lord Halifax
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
Dag Hammarskjöld
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
James Russell Lowell
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
J. K. Galbraith
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
James Russell Lowell