Quotes by Politicians - Page 22

Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.
Sallust
Above all try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Victoria Claffin Woodhull
Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F Kennedy
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
Bruce Barton
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark
The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.
William Benton
Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.
Indira Gandhi
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Business is more exciting than any game.
Lord Beaverbrook
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
George Washington
True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
Friendship is love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Woodrow Wilson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Benjamin Disraeli
Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
Horace Walpole
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.
Lord Halifax
The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Warren G. Harding
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
An amiable weakness.
R. B. Sheridan
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
Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
Ronald Reagan
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.
James Douglas
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi