Quotes by Statesmen - Page 4

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
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Goethe
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
Goethe
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.
Edmund Burke
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
Goethe
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.
Richelieu
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Seneca
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund Burke
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Know thine opportunity.
Pittacus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.
Lord Chesterfield
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
They laboriously do nothing.
Seneca
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
The unnatural - that too is natural.
Goethe
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Goethe
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He should as he list be able to prove the moon is green cheese.
Sir Thomas More
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Seneca
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Goethe
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
Seneca
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
Goethe
If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Goethe