Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Speech to Boston World Affaires Council
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever.
- Elgin Gates, Trophy Hunter in Asia
- The difference between insanity and genius is success.
- Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies
- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Fred Astaire
- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|