Quotes by Lawyers - Page 8

Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at st have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.
Cicero
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.
Cicero
The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.
Christian Bovee
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
To a man with an empty stomach food is god.
Mahatma Gandhi
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Max Ehrmann
Certain signs precede certain events.
Cicero
The farmer works the soil The agriculturist works the farmer.
Eugene F. Ware
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
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
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Bovee
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
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Christian Bovee
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
W. J. Bryan
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward J. Phelps
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
Louis Auchincloss
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Cicero
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
Daniel O'Connell
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon
Man is his own worst enemy.
Cicero
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.
Derek Bok
After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
Calvin Coolidge
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.
Cicero
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
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee