Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Wisdom   
American Presidential Quotes   
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Effort   
Work   
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I think war is a dangerous place.
Author:
George W. Bush
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Author:
Albert Camus
Subject:
Acceptance   
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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Author:
Rosalynn Carter
Subject:
Talent   
American First Lady Quotes   
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Future   
Worries   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Author:
Homer
Subject:
Good   
Ethics   
Compassion   
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Ambition   
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Wisdom   
Religious   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 scene 3
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Revenge   
Suffering   
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Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Author:
Bob Marley
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
War   
Military   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Patriotism   
Heroes   
Violence   
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Crime   
Nation   
Discrimination   
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Truth   
Justice   
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The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Community   
Cruel   
Compassion   
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You are what you are by what you believe!
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Wisdom   
Confidence   
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Mathematics   
Science   
Laws   
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Decisions   
Leadership   
American Presidential Quotes   
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