Race Quotes

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliott

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

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

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Walter Elliot

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Jim Grue

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Mackay

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

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

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.

Anthony Klco

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.

Henry G. Stott, 1907

There but for the grace of God go I.

John Bradford, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

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

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labo.

Virgil

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

Wendell Berry

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Cicero

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

From The Last Goon Show of All

Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman