Age Quotes - Page 180

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.