Quotes by Writers - Page 7

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas de Chamfort
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner
Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas de Chamfort
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself all your annoying habits are gone!
Merrill Markoe
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe
I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.
Herman Melville
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
Cyril Connolly
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.
Lord Dunsany
Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
Dennis Flanagan
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
H.G.Wells
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
Voltaire
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Samuel Johnson
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
Nothing is so infectious as example.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
Baltasar Gracián
In danger there is great power.
Agnes Whistling Elk
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
What is necessary is never a risk.
Cardinal de Retz
If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
Niccolò Machiavelli
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Denis Diderot
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
John Ruskin
The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
John Ruskin
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Vauvenargues
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
Agnes Whistling Elk
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
Charles Caleb Colton