Age Quotes - Page 122

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Youth has no age.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?