Inspiration Quotes - Page 80
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.568, Wordsworth Editions
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing
Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
"The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross".
Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub
Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42