24 Interesting Remarks Of Famous People

From Jacob M. Braude’s Complete Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Library in 8 Volumes

24 Interesting Remarks Of Famous People:

Achievement:

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

-Epicurious

Behavior:

We often do good so that we may do evil with impunity.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character:

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.

-Charles H. Spurgeon

Determination:

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

-Sir John Lubbock

Errors:

All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

-Arnold Bennett

Freedom:

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide , at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

-Salvador de Madriaga

Good-Evil:

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

-Cicero

Happiness:

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ingratitude:

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Justice:

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of the law than that he should escape.

-Thomas Jefferson

Liberalism:

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

-Robert Frost

Mind, The:

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter without your permission.

-Arnold Bennett

Naivite:

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

-Anatole France

Obligation:

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles.

-Mark Twain

Politics:

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.

-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Questions:

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

-George Bernard Shaw

Relativity:

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it’s longer than one hour. That’s relativity.

-Albert Einstein

Self-Discipline:

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

-Charles Evans Hughes

Time:

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgement of nature.

-Cicero

Unity:

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy-making among free men.

-Herbert Hoover

Victory:

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

-Oswald Spengler

Wisdom:

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Youth:

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in the spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

-Augustus Hare

Zeal:

Zeal without humilty is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any minute.

-Owen Feltham