Quotes by Lawyers - Page 42

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
Abraham Lincoln
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]
Mahatma Gandhi
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Max Ehrmann
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak
Franz Kafka
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Franz Kafka
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Franz Kafka
L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
Franz Kafka
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
Louis Sachar
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz Kafka
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
George V. Higgins
Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
Franz Kafka
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.
Bernhard Schlink
Love is a drama of contradictions.
Franz Kafka
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
Mahatma Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
Scott Turow
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
Elizabeth Wurtzel