Race Quotes
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.Henry James
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
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.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.George Aiken
There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law - Giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ.Henry Grube
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.John Ruskin
The world is disgracefully managed one hardly knows to whom to complain.Ronald Firbank
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.Eric Hoffe
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
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
There but for the grace of God go I.John Bradford
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
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
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.Marcus Tullius Cicero
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.George Eliot
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.George Santayna
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.Josh Billings
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Booker T. Washington
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
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
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
