Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

Frank Luntz

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

James Patterson

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Hideki Tojo

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

Gustave Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Joanna Lumley

The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all.

Dennis Prager

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Edsger Dijkstra

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Zig Ziglar

Each failure brings you one step closer to success.

Brian Mason

I'm not happy about it because I think it represents a failure of government to plan,

Mark Caine

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Khalil Gibran

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Walt Whitman

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.