Quotes by Statesmen - Page 2

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sir Francis Bacon
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Lord Chesterfield
When in fear it is safest to force the attack.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Francesco Guicciardini
Speech is the index of the mind.
Seneca
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
Seneca
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!
Edmund Burke
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Bernard M. Baruch
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
Seneca
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.
Goethe
Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Goethe
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
I would live to study not study to live.
Francis Bacon
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Edmund Burke
The king reigns but does not govern.
Otto von Bismarck
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
Francesco Guicciardini
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
Edmund Burke
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Bernard M. Baruch
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
George Mason
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
Seneca
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Francis Bacon
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Edmund Burke
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke