Age Quotes

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Unknown

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Russell L. Ackoff

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Richard F. Lovelace

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Sir Walter Besant

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Dille

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Serge Kahili King

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock - Huessy

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

Gossip needs no carriage.

Russian Prove

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

George Steine

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

Eknath Easwaran

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.

Emily Dickinson

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

George Bernhard Shaw

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides