Quotes by Politicians - Page 50

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
Theodore Roosevelt
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston S. Churchill
God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.
C.J. Langenhoven
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.
Michael Ignatieff
Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.
Winston S. Churchill
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
Joe Biden
I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth.
Adolf Hitler
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
Dante Alighieri
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.
Carlos Salinas
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
Dante Alighieri
The path to paradise begins in hell.
Dante Alighieri
If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Roy Bennett
It’s well known that he who returns never left
Pablo Neruda
God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?
Pablo Neruda
Cover mine eyes, O my Love! Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and strong O silence my lips with a kiss, My lips that are weary of song! Shelter my soul, O my love! My soul is bent low with the pain And the burden of love, like the grace Of a flower that is smitten with rain: O shelter my soul from thy face!
Sarojini Naidu
To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Sarojini Naidu
But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
He who hesitates is lost.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.
B.R. Ambedkar
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
[Self]-distrust manifests blatantly in the judge's reaction to your experiences of expansion. 'Expansion' here refers to situations when you try something new, success at something you're never done before, stop a self-destructive habit, speak up in your own defense, recognize a truth about yourself, take on a new responsibility, and so on. The expansion is a shift in your sense of who you are or who you have taken yourself to be: who you are becomes a little bigger, includes a little more than it did before.What does the judge do with these moments? Most everyone has experienced some sort of contraction after they expand: some letdown, some fear creeping in, some shame about being bigger, some withdrawal from the expansion. In one sense, this is part of a natural cycle of expansion and contraction. However, the contraction is seldom seen as part of the normal flow of the unfolding soul.
Byron Brown
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
Thomas Hughes
We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.
John Kasich
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
Barack Obama
Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.
Eric Greitens
There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.
Roy Bennett
There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
Roy Bennett
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.
Colin Powell
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret Thatcher
Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
John F Kennedy
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.
S R Nathan
Life is not so bad after all when you can breathe.
Boniface Sagini
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
John F Kennedy
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John F Kennedy
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
Ben Carson
The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.
Woodrow Wilson
you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot
If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.
Steve Stockman
He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.
John Adams
The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.
Michael Dobbs
Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.
Matthew Heines
Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.
Eric Greitens
In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.
Eric Greitens
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently. We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.
Ezra Taft Benson
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.
Ezra Taft Benson
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston S. Churchill
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston S. Churchill
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
Nelson Mandela