Inspirational Quotes - Page 64
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume
Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.