Quotes by Lawyers - Page 2

The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln
Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
Lee Loevinger
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Nicholas Johnson
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Cicero
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.
Christian Bovee
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Cicero
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
Henry Grattan
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Cicero
Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.
F. E. Smith
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
Abraham Lincoln
There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.
James J. Walker
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
O sin what hast thou done to this fair earth!
R. H. Dana
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
Christian Bovee
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
Louis Brandeis
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
Thomas Morton
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Cicero
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George Higgins
Give me but one hour of Scotland Let me see it ere I die.
Wiluam E. Aytoun
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Bovee
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
Georges Jacques Danton
Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler
Sir I would rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay
Let us have faith that Right makes Might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka