Quotes by Politicians - Page 5

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Bob Brown
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Deep faith eliminates fear.
Lech Walesa
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
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
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Cicero
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
John F Kennedy
I feel like a Bull Moose.
Theodore Roosevelt
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.
George Allen
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Bill Bradley
Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.
George Allen
Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.
George Allen
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!
Jimmy Carter
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.
Nelson Mandela
Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.
John F Kennedy
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
Lord Byron
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
Winston Churchill
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Hubert Humphrey
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Gerald Ford
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
A.P. Herbert
Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.
F. E. Smith
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai Stevenson
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Cicero
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
Henry Grattan
The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
In solitude when we are least alone.
Lord Byron
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
Lord Byron
Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.
Winston Churchill
There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.
James J. Walker
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Arthur Balfour
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
Lord Byron
The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
John F Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald Ford