Race Quotes
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people.Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.Don Marquis
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.Anthony Klco
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.John Dalberg
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.Wendell Berry
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliott
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.John Dalberg
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.Peter Brodie
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 911 Bible
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Rich Cook
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Ecclesiastes 9: 11
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.John Dryden
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2
