We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Wisdom   
Power   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Honor   
Perseverance   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Evil   
Physics   
Human Nature   
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Death   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
Work: on the eve of his 75th birthday
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Books   
Reading   
Sarcasm   
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
Author:
John Wayne
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I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me I don't want it if its that easy.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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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!
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Courage   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Happiness   
Work:
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Education   
Adversity   
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Author:
John F. Kennedy
Subject:
Decisions   
Action   
American Presidential Quotes   
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Art   
Vices   
Virtue   
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Confusion   
Time   
Perfection   
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Happiness   
Life   
Fate & Destiny   
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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Life   
Philosophical   
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Author:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Subject:
Sincerity   
Life   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Life   
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Eulogy   
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Conflict   
Morality   
Discrimination   
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