Best Quotes Around the World

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I’m going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.